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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator McGuire</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add Section 7058.9 to the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Contractors: debris removal.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Contractors State License Law, provides for the licensure and regulation of contractors by the Contractors State License Board. Existing law prohibits contractors from performing specified acts. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery or another state agency tasked to manage contracts for wildfire debris cleanup and removal by the Office of Emergency Services to prequalify contractors to enter into contracts to perform prescribed wildfire debris cleanup and removal work in communities impacted by wildfires.</html:p>
<html:p>Notwithstanding the prequalification requirement, this bill would prohibit a contractor from engaging in debris removal in a declared disaster area, unless the contractor has one of specified license or classifications. During a declared federal, state, or local emergency or for a declared
disaster area due to a natural disaster, the bill would require any licensee authorized to perform debris removal under these provisions to pass an approved hazardous substance certification examination and comply with hazardous waste operation and emergency response requirements, as specified.</html:p>
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<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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Section 7058.9 is added to the
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(a)
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Notwithstanding Section 40520 of the Public Resources Code, a contractor shall not engage in debris removal, including muck out and ash out, in a declared disaster area, unless the contractor has one of the following licenses or classifications:
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(1)
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A - General Engineering Contractor.
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(2)
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B - General Building Contractor.
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(3)
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C-12 - Earthwork and Paving and C-21 - Building Moving/Demolition.
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(b)
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During a declared federal, state, or local emergency or for a declared disaster area due to a natural disaster, any licensee authorized to perform debris
removal pursuant to this section shall have passed an approved hazardous substance certification examination pursuant to Section 7058.7 and shall comply with the hazardous waste operations and emergency response requirements pursuant to Section 5192 of Title 8 of the California Code of Regulations.
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