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Rigid Plastic Packaging Container Law, Administrative Civil Penalties

Description
Revision of existing regulations to establish five clearly defined violations with an associated range of penalties for noncompliance with the Rigid Plastic Packaging Container (RPPC) Law.

Affected Regulatory Code Sections
Title 14, California Code of Regulations, Division 7, Chapter 4. Specific sections affected are:

• Article 3, Section 17946
• Article 3, Section 17949

Rulemaking History
Stakeholders were informed that a penalty structure was being developed at October 2002 and December 2002 Interested Parties meetings. Stakeholders were provided an opportunity to comment on the emergency regulations at an Interested Parties meeting held on March 6, 2003 as well as at the Special Waste and Market Development Committee meeting on March 11, 2003.

The Board adopted emergency regulations pertaining to assessment of administrative civil penalties on April 23, 2003. The emergency regulations were filed with the Secretary of State’s office on June 2, 2003. The Emergency regulations allow a 120-day timeframe to hold a public hearing to allow interested parties to comment on the proposed regulations, staff to respond to the comments, and to file permanent regulations with the Office of Administrative Law. See the proposed regulations page for more details.

Final Text, June 2003 (Adobe PDF, 80 KB | MS Word, 89 KB). Final text filed with the Secretary of State's Office on June 2, 2003, with underline/strikethrough indicating changes to existing regulatory text.

Finding of Emergency, June 2003 (Adobe PDF, 15 KB | MS Word, 28KB)

More Information: www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Plastic/RPPC/

Last updated: November 01, 2007