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- I _ S Ig `�•" ''r♦ -calif o -=nia Environmental Protection Agency Department of Toxic Substances Control i Site Mitigation Program FACT SHEET LOCAL CLEANUP AGREEMENTS " NEW Y3GIS7�7TICN: LOC�,I. CI$ANt'�P AG*REEKNTS The full tact of section 101075 (b) is provided: Senate Hill (SBI 1248 (O'Connell) became effective an ^ (b) °'Taste" means. either of the January 1, 1996. SB 1248 enacted following: Health and Safety Code sections 512 through 512.4. {All statutory 1} Any material far which no references ]herein are to the Health use or reuse is intended and and Safety Code unless otherwise that is to be discarded. stated. ) The purpose of SB 1248 is to allow a responsible party and a 2} Amy materia'_ that spills, local health or environmental health escapes, or is released from agency (local agency) to enter into any manufacturing, a written agreement for the imdustrial, commercial, or supervision of the cleanup of a other giant, facility, or simple waste release. process, or that escapes.-or is released during the SB 1248 establishes a c'_eaaup transparting .or t,ansferring program which allows a local health from one place to another, agency to supervise the remedial or during the pumping, action tak— at a site, set cleanup processing, storing, or. aaals at a site, and issue a letter packaging of any material or other document that certifies i:, to, or from such a that the cleanup goals were plant, facility, or process, accomplished. while local or'that enters or may enter regulatory agencies have supervised ah uncantalned air space or simple cleanups for many years, a surface water course that until enactment of S3 1248, there is not totally contained on was no direct recognition of these the comciguous property of activities in state law. the plant., facility, or SB 1248 was not intended to process, or which enters, or constitute a change in the status may enter, the groundwater quo, but rather to acknowledge the underlying sacs plant, .legitimacy of local cleanup facility, .or process.,, activities already being pirformed by qualified local agencies_ • Based on available information, a local agency officer may agree Kay clam a is of S8' 1248: to super oze a remedial action M the agency has adequate sta€f • Sections 312 (a) (1) through (6} resources, technical expertise, define the terms local and capabilities to adequately officer; person; release; supe_rise the 'remedial action. remedial action; responsible party; and waste. • The written remedial action agreement must specify the Section 512 (a) (6). states that testing, monitoring, and "waste" has the same meaning as analysis the responsible party set forth !a section 470 (b) . will ca_=y out to deterrn ae the However, SB 1360 (Stats. 1995, type' and extent of the Chapter 413) revealed section contamination, saeci€y the 470 and replaced it with section remedial actions that will be 101075, Local Cleanup Agreements Page 1 (February 6. 1996)