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SCS/SB 1040 - This act creates a joint committee appointed by the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tem of the Senate to examine the present hazardous waste fee structure and ultimately make a recommendation to the Governor and the General Assembly regarding how to more fairly apportion the cost of services provided among those that benefit from the services by December 31, 2004.

This act allows Missouri's treatment storage and disposal facilities receiving hazardous waste from out-of-state generators to submit registration describing type and quantity of hazardous waste received from out-of-state generators and fee information to DNR. The act allows out-of-state hazardous waste generators to avoid the registration requirement in Section 260.380.1(1) and (8) if they have complied with the previously mentioned registrations under Section 260.375(11).

This act extends the hazardous waste fee until June 30, 2006, except that the Department shall collect this fee for any hazardous waste generated prior to such date.

HENRY HERSCHEL