California OK'sTreated Wood Bill

Beginning January l, lumber retailers and wholesalers in California will be required to post new warning signs on handling treated wood, as part of a compromise for revising guidelines on disposing of pressure treated materials.

The California State Legislature passed and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed AB 1353, which allows for consumer, government agency and industrial treated wood removed from service to be disposed of in composite-lined portions of municipal landfills approved to accept the material.

When the management criteria for the materials are met, it exempts them from the state's non-RCRA hazardous waste rules.

"Good science and cooperation among all parties prevailed in passing

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this important legislation" said Dennis Hayward, executive director of the Western Wood Preservers Institute, the treated wood industry group which promoted the legislation.

For the past two decades treated wood has been disposed of in lined Class II and III municipal landfills under variances which had become outdated. Without action future disposal of consumer and most construction treated wood waste would have been limited to the state's two Hazardous Waste Landfills "at a great and unnecessary cost to the public", according to Hayward. "A scientific review of the state's lined municipal landfills accepting treated wood showed that leachate from the materials was well below acceptable limits and that public health and the environment were securely protected."

Assemblymember Barbara Matthews, who sponsored AB 1353, said, "By working closely with treated wood retailers, businesses, labor groups, environmental organizations. state agencies, the treated wood industry and fellow Legislators we crafted a bill that assures access to the economic. aesthetic. and structural benefits of treated wood while continuing to protect the environment."

As part of the bill, the participants agreed to an expanded outreach effort to assure both the proper use and disposal of treated wood in the retail and construction industries. Starting next month, wholesalers and retailers must post a warning sign, as specifically detailed in the bill, that outlines for the consumer the proper procedures for handling and using wood treated with EPA registered preservatives. The treating industry will provide the warning posters to the market. This will be followed up closely by the development of disposal guidance that will be communicated to the public and construction users of treated wood products.

The bill also provides for interim standards for the handling and disposal of waste treated wood that will be replaced by regulations to be developed and implemented by January 2007. The effectiveness of the bill will be monitored and made public for review prior to the 2012 sunset of the legislation.

Hayward noted, "This legislation is a balanced 'win-win' solution for all parties directed at assuring safe, economic and environmentally responsible use of treated wood from cradle to grave benefiting all the people of California."

For more details on AB 1353 and the use of treated wood in California, see www.wwpinstitute.org.

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Depot Store Turns Fight Club

A man was arrested after fighting with security guards at a Home Depot in Redlands, Ca.-one of three customer scuffles that weekend.

Manual Cintron, 37, fought with the guards Oct. 23 after allegedly stealing a $5 item. According to authorities, Cintron approached an employee with a receipt for the item and asked where in the store it was located. Depot's loss prevention personnel watched on video Cintron find and return the item. Cintron began to fight with a security guard trying to stop him as he tried to leave the store. Both suffered minor injuries.

That wasn't the only fight at the store that day, however. Earlier, Veralene Rodriguez was arrested for alleged battery after getting into a fight with another woman cutting in line at the check-out stand.

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