HB1602-FN: creating a safe battery recycling stewardship program.

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• 149 · reference

  rs, retailers, and other stakeholders; (e) A description of the funding mechanism for the program; (f) Performance goals for each of the next 3 calendar years, consistent with RSA 149- M:68; and (g) A description of how the program will provide free, continuous, convenient, visible, and accessible collection of all covered battery chemistries and brands, including goals for the number and distribut

• 149-M · amend

  program. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: 1 New Subdivision; Safe Battery Collection and Recycling Stewardship. Amend RSA 149-M by inserting after section 64 the following new subdivision: Safe Battery Collection and Recycling Stewardship 149-M:65 Definitions; Stewardship Program Established. I. In this subdivision: (a) "Battery-containin

• 149-M:4 · reference

  ns a battery containing one or more voltaic or galvanic cells, electrically connected to produce energy, and designed to be recharged. (s) "Recycling" has the same meaning as in RSA 149-M:4, XX. (t) "Recycling efficiency rate" means the ratio of the weight of covered battery components and materials recycled by a program operator to the weight of covered batteries collected. (u) "Retailer" means a pers

• 149-M:66 · reference

  a list of proposed sorters, transporters, processors, and battery recyclers used for recycling; (d) Education and outreach efforts to inform retailers of their obligations under RSA 149-M:66 and to promote participation by consumers, retailers, and other stakeholders; (e) A description of the funding mechanism for the program; (f) Performance goals for each of the next 3 calendar years, consistent with

• 149-M:72 · reference

  operating under a plan approved by the department. II. A retailer shall be deemed in compliance with paragraph I if the department's publicly accessible website, as required by RSA 149-M:72, II(c), as of the date the product is made available for retail sale, lists the producer or brand as participating in an approved stewardship plan. III. Retailers of covered batteries or battery-containing products ar

• 149-M:74 · reference

  strative costs incurred in implementing, administering, and enforcing this chapter. Each person collecting batteries independent of a battery stewardship organization pursuant to RSA 149-M:74 shall reimburse the department for administrative costs incurred in implementing, administering, and enforcing this chapter. The reimbursement shall be sufficient to cover the department’s full costs, including costs a

• 356 · reference

  IV. A producer, or a battery stewardship organization acting on behalf of producers, that creates, participates in, or implements a battery stewardship plan shall be exempt from RSA 356 and all other state laws concerning antitrust, restraint of trade, unfair trade practices, or other anticompetitive conduct, to the extent such conduct is undertaken in accordance with an approved battery stewardship pl

• 541-A · reference

  device collection and recycling shall not be subject to duplicative obligations under this chapter. 149-M:75 Rulemaking; Severability. I. The department may adopt rules under RSA 541-A to implement this subdivision. II. If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application of the provision to other persons or circum

• 91-A · reference

  . The department shall consider the request and, if confidentiality is not contrary to the public interest and is otherwise permissible under the New Hampshire right-to-know law, RSA 91-A, shall grant the request. 149-M:72 Administrative Cost Reimbursement and Department Responsibilities. I. Each battery stewardship organization submitting a battery stewardship plan, revision, or amendment shall reim

RSAs mentioned by this document

• RSA 91-A · ACCESS TO GOVERNMENTAL RECORDS AND MEETINGS
• RSA 149 · WATER POLLUTION AND DISPOSAL OF WASTES
• RSA 149-M · SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
• RSA 356 · COMBINATIONS AND MONOPOLIES
• RSA 541-A · ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
• RSA 149-M:4 · Definitions