HAZARDOUS WASTE MANIFEST CHANGES EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 5, 2006
Orange County businesses that generate hazardous waste and use hazardous waste manifests for disposal purposes must discontinue the use of the current manifest form and begin using a new manifest form on September 5, 2006. The Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), in order to comply with U.S. EPA published regulations that mandate the national use of a new Uniform Hazardous Waste Manifest, adopted regulations to make California regulations conform to the new requirements.
Important Changes on the New Manifest Form
Adds generator site address and emergency 24 hour phone number
Waste codes have six boxes
RCRA/Federal code(s), if applicable
Destination state code(s), if required
Generator state code(s), if required
Categorizes discrepancies with five boxes
Quantity or type, load rejections (full or partial), and container residuals
Added fields to link new and old manifest tracking numbers for rejections or
container residues
Adds hopper or gondola car as container type
Prohibits use of fractions for waste quantity
Expands international shipments field
Standardizes method codes and increases them from 10 to 24 for California use
New line for alternate facility or generator to sign if receiving rejected waste or container residues
Waste minimization certification in regulation not on the manifest form
No color coded copies
No generator-to-generator state page (generators must submit photocopies to the State)
Instructions not found on the back (will be printed and distributed separately)
New manifest must be purchased from U.S. EPA approved printers. For list of printers go to www.epa.gov/epaoswer/hazwaste/gener/manifest/registry/printers.htm
For more information on this important change, please go to:
www.dtsc.ca.gov/LawsRegsPolicies/Regs/Manifest_Changes_regs.cfm or contact your CUPA inspector at (714) 433-6000.
OC CUPA, along with the Industrial Environmental Coalition of Orange County, will host a half-day manifest workshop in September at Irvine City Hall in Irvine. A representative from DTSC will be on site to assist businesses with this important manifest change. More details will follow, or call Christine Lane at 714-433-6243 for information.
Administrative Enforcement Order Update
In 2005, the Orange County Certified Unified Program Agency (OC CUPA) began issuing Administrative Enforcement Orders for facilities that failed to come into compliance. The goal of an Administrative Enforcement Order is to return a facility to compliance in timely manner, eliminate the economic benefit of non-compliance and create a deterrence against future non-compliance. The OC CUPA issues Administrative Enforcement Orders for Class 1 hazardous waste and tiered permitting violations, major UST violations, and repetitive violations in any regulated program. Businesses are encouraged to address violations identified through inspections in a timely manner to avoid the Administrative Enforcement Order process. During the first year of implementation, the OC CUPA issued Administrative Enforcement Orders for seven facilities and collected just over $20,000 in penalties. Administrative Enforcement Orders were issued at both hazardous waste generator, tiered permitting and underground storage tank facilities which had incurred serious violations as defined under the Health and Safety Code and California Code of Regulations. The following chart outlines the 2005 cases.
TYPE OF BUSINESS
PROGRAM
PENALTY
AMOUNT
Metal Finishing
Hazardous Waste Generator
$7,500
Service Station
Underground Storage Tank
$2,500
Manufacturing
Hazardous Waste Generator
$9,000
Manufacturing
Hazardous Waste Generator
$750
Circuit Board
Tiered Permitting
$850
Service Station
Underground Storage Tank
$2,000
Metal Finishing
Hazardous Waste Generator
$2,000
Newport Harbor Clean & Green Campaign
The County of Orange, in conjunction with the City of Newport Beach, operates a free Bilge Pad Exchange Program to preserve and enhance the quality of the marine environment at Newport Harbor. This exchange program provides conveniently located collection points for used bilge pads and distributes free replacement bilge pads. There are three locations at the Newport Dunes Resort and three locations in Newport Harbor.
The County also began a similar project in Sunset Harbor this year, with a bilge pad exchange site located at Mariners Point Fuel Dock. Please contact Christine Lane at (714) 433-6243 if you would like more information.
Important Reminder for UST Owners
Direct bury spill buckets must be tested with a device accurate to .002" for two-fifteen minute test periods.
SINGLE-WALLED UST FACILITY SURVEY
Recently, the State Water Resources Control Board polled the local agencies throughout the state of California in an effort to compile data on single-walled underground tanks regulated by Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). A total of 83 of the 99 local agencies responded to the survey which was representative of 16,329 operating underground tanks. Based on the reporting agency's information, the areas covered by the 16 non-reporting agencies were estimated and added to the totals.
The number of underground tanks with a single-walled component (includes single-walled tanks with double-walled piping, double-walled tanks with single-walled piping and single-walled tanks with single-walled piping) were 1880 statewide or 11.5% of the active tanks. The number of these single-walled component tanks owned by small businesses is 630 or 33.5%.
In addition, the local agencies were asked to determine whether these single-walled component tanks were the sole source of fuel for a large geographic area. Eight local agencies responded that 18 facilities serviced an average area of a 15 mile radius.
It is widely suspected that this survey was conducted to develop regulations for the creation of a sunset date (removal/closure) on single-walled component tanks.
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