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Pleasanton 2022 Legislative Advocacy Outcomes waste from a very small quantity generator to take several actions, including, but not limited to, accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG in the same area and at the same time as residential household hazardous waste and allowing the facility to accept more than 100 kilograms of hazardous waste from a VSQG at a single time as long as it accepts no more 1,200 kilograms from that VSQG in a calendar year.The bill would authorize a household hazardous waste collection facility to allow people to exit their vehicles in waste acceptance areas only under specified conditions. The bill would specify that volume limitations placed on a facility in accepting hazardous waste from a VSQG do not apply to latex and oil-based paints, as provided, and would impose other volume and weight limitations on wastes transported by public agencies under existing authority to transport, or oversee the transport of, illegally disposed of hazardous waste. The bill would also make non-substantive changes, including by deleting obsolete provisions, and would make clarifying and conforming changes. Pleasanton Position:Support Focus Area: Sustainable Development SB 45 (Portantino D) Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025, as provided. Current law requires the department, no later than July 1, 2020, and in consultation with the state board, to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government,and local governments have made in achieving these organic waste reduction goals. Current law authorizes the department, if it determines that significant progress has not been made toward achieving the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board, to include incentives or additional requirements in its regulations to facilitate progress towards achieving the goals. This bill would require the department, in consultation with the state board, to assist local jurisdictions in complying with these provisions, including any regulations adopted by the department. Pleasanton Position: Support Focus Area: Sustainable Development SB 1046 (Eqqman D) Solid waste: precheckout and carryout bags. Would prohibit, on and after January 1, 2025, a store, as defined, from providing a precheckout bag to a customer if the bag is not either a compostable bag, as described, or a recycled paper bag. The bill would define a "precheckout bag" for this purpose to mean a bag provided to a customer before the customer reaches the point of sale, that is designed to protect a purchased item from damaging or contaminating other purchased items in a checkout bag, or to contain an unwrapped food item. Pleasanton Position:Opposed, removed opposition and moved to Neutral position Focus Area: Sustainable Development SB 38 (Wieckowski D) Beverage containers. The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act requires every beverage container sold or offered for sale in this state to have a minimum refund value. Under the act, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery is required to calculate a processing fee 16 I Page