25204.6
. (a) On or before January 1, 1995, the Secretary for
Environmental Protection shall develop a hazardous waste facility
regulation and permitting consolidation program, after holding an
appropriate number of public hearings throughout the state. The
program shall be developed in close consultation with the director
and with the executive officers and chairpersons of the State Water
Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards, and with affected businesses and interested members
of the public, including environmental organizations.
(b) The hazardous waste facility regulation and permitting
consolidation program shall provide for all of the following:
(1) The grant of sole authority to either the department, or the
State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water
quality control boards, to implement and enforce the requirements of
Article 6 (commencing with Section 66264.90) of Chapter 14 of, and
Article 6 (commencing with Section 66265.90) of Chapter 15 of,
Division 4.5 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations, but
not including Section 66264.100 of Title 22 of the California Code of
Regulations, and of Article 5 (commencing with Section 2530) of
Chapter 15 of Division 3 of Title 23 of the California Code of
Regulations, but not including Sections 2550.10, 2550.11, and 2550.12
of those regulations.
(2) The development of a process for ensuring, at each facility
which conducts offsite hazardous waste treatment, storage, or
disposal activities, or which conducts onsite treatment, storage, or
disposal activities which are required to receive a permit under the
federal act, and which is required to clean up or abate the effects
of a release of a hazardous substance pursuant to Section 13304 of
the Water Code, or which is required to take corrective action for a
release of hazardous waste or constituents pursuant to Section
25200.10, or both, that sole jurisdiction over the supervision of
that action is vested in either the department or the State Water
Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality
control boards.
(3) The development of a unified hazardous waste facility permit,
issued by the department, which incorporates all conditions,
limitations, and requirements imposed by the State Water Resources
Control Board or the California regional water quality control boards
to protect water quality, and incorporate all conditions,
limitations, and requirements imposed by the department pursuant to
this chapter.
(4) The development of a consolidated enforcement and inspection
program designed to ensure effective, efficient, and coordinated
enforcement of the laws implemented by the department, the State
Water Resources Control Board, and the California regional water
quality control boards, as those laws relate to facilities conducting
offsite hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal activities,
and to facilities conducting onsite treatment, storage, and disposal
activities which are required to receive a permit under the federal
act.
(c) The Secretary for Environmental Protection may immediately
implement those aspects of the program which do not require statutory
changes. If the Secretary for Environmental Protection determines
that statutory changes are needed to fully implement the program, the
secretary shall recommend these changes to the Legislature on or
before January 1, 1995. It is the intent of the Legislature that the
program be fully implemented not later than January 1, 1996.
(d) The Secretary for Environmental Protection shall work in close
consultation with the Environmental Protection Agency, and shall
implement this section only to the extent that doing so will not
result in this state losing its authorization to implement the
federal act, or its delegation to implement the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.).