HomeMy WebLinkAbout18759 - RESOLUTIONS - 12/20/1995 RESOLUTION NO. 18759
OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
PALM SPRINGS, DESIGNATING THE COUNTY '
OF RIVERSIDE, DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL I-fEALTH AS THE UNIFIED
PROGRAM AGENCY FOR HAZARDOUS
WASTE AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
MANAGEMENT.
WIIEREAS, Chapter 6.11 of Division 20 of the California Health and
Safety Code (HSC) requires that administration of six specified hazardous waste
and hazardous materials management regulatory programs which must be
consolidated as a Unified Program; and,
WHEREAS, HSC Chapter 6.1 1 requires that an agency which administers
any of the specified unified program components mast be certified under a Unified
Program Agency by the Secretary of the California Environmental Protection
Agency; and,
WHEREAS, those Unified Program components specified in HSC Chapter
6.11 include the requirements of; HSC Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section
25100) related to hazardous waste generators and on-site waste treatment; HSC
Chapter 6.7 (commencing with seotion 25280) related to construction, operation,
and removal of underground storage tanks; Article I of I-ISC Chapter 6.95 related
with the management of acutely hazardous materials; EISC Section 25270.5 (c)
related to aboveground storage tank spill prevention control and countermeasure '
plans; and Uniform Fire Code (UPC) Section 80.105 (b) and (c) related to
hazardous materials rnanagernent plans and inventories; and,
WHEREAS, HSC Section 25509.2 eliminates duplicative reporting
requirements by deeming that reports filed under HSC Chapter 6.95, Articles I and
2, shall have met the requirements of UPC Section 80.103 (b) and (c); and,
WHEREAS, the County of Riverside, Department of Environmental
Health, currently administers regulatory compliance for five of the six Unified
Program components in the City of Palm Springs; and,
WIIEREAS, the Department of Environmental Health, serving as a Unified
Program Agency will coordinate administration of the sixth Unified Program
component, the Aboveground Storage Tank Spill Prevention Control and
Countermeasure Plans, with the San Diego, Santa Ana and Colorado Regional
Water Quality Control Boards;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Palm Springs City
Council designates the County of Riverside, Department of Environmental Health
as the Unified Program Agency for hazardous waste and hazardous materials
regulation in lhisjurisdiction.
Adopted this 20th day of December , 1995.
AYES: Members Barnes, Hodges, Oden, Spurgin and Mayor Kleindienst ,
NOES; None
ABSENT; None
ATTEST: ((CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFIORNIABy
City Clerk City Manager
REVIEWED & APPROVED AS TO FORM