(a) The department may adjust, through regulations adopted by the department, the minimum required collection sites, pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 42422.1, to ensure that consumers have sufficient convenient access to collection sites, applicable to stewardship plans addressing collection of covered batteries if the department has substantial evidence that allowing for this adjustment will increase the collection of covered batteries.

(b) The department shall establish, through regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section 42420.2, a limit on the number of covered batteries to be deposited at a single collection site, pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 42422.1, as applicable, by a single consumer in a single day.

Terms Used In California Public Resources Code 42420.3

  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.

(c) Beginning January 1, 2032, and every five years thereafter, the department may after consultation with the program operators and through regulations adopted by the department adjust the minimum recycling efficiency rates established in Section 42422.1 based on the most economically and technically feasible processes and methodology available.

(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 131, Sec. 193. (AB 1754) Effective January 1, 2024.)

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