Metal shredding facilities: regulations.

Plain English Breakdown

The bill text does not provide specific details on how costs will be reimbursed, only that it is required to be done so by facility owners/operators if incurred.

Regulations for Metal Shredding Facilities

This law allows air pollution control districts to choose whether to implement new rules if they already have regulations in place by January 1, 2026, and requires them to include measures like facility registration and methods to reduce emissions from metal shredding facilities.

What This Bill Does

• Allows air pollution control districts to choose whether or not to implement new rules if they already have regulations in place by January 1, 2026.
• Requires districts to include specific measures such as facility registration and methods to reduce emissions from metal shredding facilities.

Who It Names or Affects

• Air pollution control districts
• Owners and operators of metal shredding facilities

Terms To Know

Metal Shredding Facilities

Places that break down large pieces of scrap metal into smaller parts.

Fenceline Monitoring

Checking the air quality right next to a facility's boundary.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify what happens if districts do not have existing regulations by January 1, 2026.
• It is unclear how much funding will be needed or provided for implementing these new rules.

Official Summary Text

AB 1338, as amended, Solache.
Metal shredding facilities: regulations.
Existing law requires, on or before January 1, 2027, an air pollution control district or an air quality management district the jurisdiction of which includes metal shredding facilities, in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment to develop requirements for facilitywide fence-line air quality monitoring at metal shredding facilities, as defined. Existing law authorizes any reasonable regulatory costs incurred by a district in implementing these provisions to be reimbursed pursuant to the fee authority of the district.
This
bill, if a district has regulations and rules governing metal shredding facilities that have been implemented as of January 1, 2026, would authorize instead of
require the district to implement these requirements. The bill would require the district regulations and rules to include, but not be limited to, facility registration, fenceline or alternative monitoring technologies compliance methods, or other methods to reduce emissions from metal shredding facilities, as specified. The
bill would
also
require, rather than authorize, any reasonable regulatory costs incurred by a district in implementing these provisions to be reimbursed by the owner or operator of a metal shredding facility.

Current Bill Text

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