General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 21I Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act
- Massachusetts General Laws - Short title - Chapter 21I, Section 1
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Act.”
- Massachusetts General Laws - Definitions - Chapter 21I, Section 2
In this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: “Agency,” state agency. “Board”, the science advisory board of the Toxics Use Reduction Institute...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of the department - Chapter 21I, Section 3
In addition to any other requirements or authorities of this chapter, the department’s duties shall include the following: (A) The department shall identify all department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative council on toxics use reduction - Chapter 21I, Section 4
There shall be an administrative council on toxics use reduction. The council shall be composed of the secretary of environmental affairs or his designee; the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2006, 188, Sec. 18 - Chapter 21I, Section 5
Repealed, 2006, 188, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toxics Use Reduction Institute - Chapter 21I, Section 6
There shall be a Toxics Use Reduction Institute at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. The institute shall seek to reduce the use of toxic substances...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Office of technical assistance and technology; responsibilities and programs - Chapter 21I, Section 7
There shall be the office of technical assistance and technology within the executive office of environmental affairs. The office shall have a director and appropriate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Responsibilities of all state agencies - Chapter 21I, Section 8
In order to facilitate coordination of the implementation of this chapter with existing state and federal programs pertaining to toxics production and use, hazardous waste,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toxic or hazardous substance list - Chapter 21I, Section 9
The toxic or hazardous substance list shall consist of:— (A) As of January 1, 1990, and thereafter, the chemicals identified on the Toxic Chemical List...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Threshold amounts for toxic or hazardous substances - Chapter 21I, Section 9A
Threshold amounts for toxic or hazardous substances for purposes of this chapter shall be initially established as the following: (A) For toxics users that manufacture...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Annual toxic or hazardous substance reports - Chapter 21I, Section 10
Each large quantity toxics user shall provide to the department for each facility an annual report for each toxic or hazardous substance manufactured, processed, or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toxics use reduction plans - Chapter 21I, Section 11
(A)(1) Large quantity toxics users shall by July 1, 1994 or by July 1 of the first subsequent even-numbered year in which a report pursuant...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toxics use reduction planners - Chapter 21I, Section 12
(A) In order to be a certified toxics use reduction planner, an individual must either (1) have satisfactorily completed a toxics use reduction planning program,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Statewide reduction goal - Chapter 21I, Section 13
(A) The goal of the commonwealth is to achieve by 1997, through toxics use reduction, a fifty percent (50\%) reduction from 1987 quantities of toxic...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prioritization of user segments - Chapter 21I, Section 14
(A) Within 4 years from the designation of a higher hazard substance, the council may designate by regulation user segments, which it considers to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Performance standards - Chapter 21I, Section 15
(A) The department may request authority from the council to establish, by regulation, a performance standard for a priority user segment on a segment-wide basis....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Improved enforcement of toxics laws - Chapter 21I, Section 16
Except where otherwise specifically provided, whenever it appears to the department that there has been a violation of this chapter, or any regulation or approval...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Toxics use reduction waiver - Chapter 21I, Section 17
A toxics user may petition the department for the temporary waiver of any law which the department administers or any regulation adopted by the department...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Citizen involvement - Chapter 21I, Section 18
Massachusetts residents may participate in monitoring and enforcement procedures as follows: (A) The department shall make available for resident review reports which are required under...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Establishment of toxics use fee - Chapter 21I, Section 19
(A) No later than April 1, 1990 the department shall prepare and distribute to all employers in the commonwealth in SIC codes Ten through Fourteen...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Trade secret protection - Chapter 21I, Section 20
(A) If a toxics user, required to submit to the department a report, plan summary or other document, believes that disclosing information in that document...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Penalties - Chapter 21I, Section 21
(A) Any person who violates any provision of this chapter, or any regulation or approval issued or adopted hereunder, shall be subject to a civil...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Injunctive relief - Chapter 21I, Section 22
The attorney general may, upon request of the department, bring action for injunctive relief against any person violating a provision of this chapter or any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Protection of employee rights - Chapter 21I, Section 23
No employer or duly authorized agent of an employer shall discharge, refuse to hire or in any other manner discriminate against an employee because the...
Last modified: September 11, 2015