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0 0 • (D) Compliance with applicable federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations is required as a condition of receiving a green business certification or its equivalent. (d) The department may determine, in consultation with the advisory committee, the most effective methods to promote implementation of pollution prevention education programs by CUPAs, small business development corporations, business environmental assistance centers, and other regional and local government environmental programs. Program elements may include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) Sponsoring workshops, conferences, technology fairs, and other training events. (2) Sponsoring regional training groups, such as the regional hazardous waste reduction committees. (3) Developing and distributing educational materials, such as short descriptions of successful pollution prevention projects and materials explaining how pollution prevention has been used by businesses to achieve compliance with environmental laws enforced by local governments. (4) Developing site review checklists, training manuals, and technical resource manuals and using those resources to train CUPAs, small business development corporations, business environmental assistance centers, and other regional and local government environmental programs. (5) Preparing and distributing resource fists such as lists of vendors, consultants, or providers of financial assistance for pollution prevention projects. (6) Serving as an information clearinghouse to support telephone and onsite consultants with local governments. SEC. 52. Section 25244.18 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 25244.18. (a) The department or the unified program agency may request from any generator, and the generator shall provide within 30 • days from the date of the request, a copy of the generator's review and plan or report conducted and completed pursuant to Section 25244.19 or 25244.20. The department or the unified program agency may evaluate any of those documents submitted to the department or the unified program agency to determine whether it satisfies the requirements of this article. (b) (1) If the department or the unified program agency determines that a generator has not completed the review and plan in the manner required by Section 25244.19, or the report in the manner required by Section 25244.20, the department or the unified program agency shall provide the generator with a notice of noncompliance, specifying the deficiencies in the review and plan or report identified by the department. If the department or the unified program agency fids that the review and plan does not comply with Section 25244.19, the department or the unified program agency shall consider the review and plan to be incomplete. A generator shall file a revised review and plan or report correcting the deficiencies identified by the department or the unified program agency within 60 days from the date of the receipt of the notice. The department or the unified program agency may grant, in response to a written request from the generator, an extension of the 60 -day deadline, for cause, except that the department or the unified program agency shall not grant that extension for more than an additional 60 days. (2) If a generator fails to submit a revised review and plan or report complying with the requirements of this article within the required period, or if the department or unified program agency determines that a generator has failed to implement the measures included in the generator's review and plan for reducing the generator's hazardous waste, in accordance with Section 25244.19, the department or the miffed program agency may impose civil penalties pursuant to Section 25187, in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day the violation of this article continues, notwithstanding Section 25189.2, seek an order directing compliance pursuant to Section 25181, or enter into a consent agreement or a compliance schedule with the generator. (c) If a generator fails to implement a measure specified in the review and plan pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 25244.19, the generator shall not be deemed to be in violation of Section 25244.19 for not implementing the selected measure if the generator does both of the following: (1) The generator finds that, upon further analysis or as a result of =expected consequences, the selected measure is not technically feasible or economically practicable, or if the selected approach has resulted in any of the following: (A) An increase in the generation of hazardous waste. I• (B) An increase in the release of hazardous chemical contaminants to other media. RECEIVE® AUG 0 5 2014 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT