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MW -22-1996 12:05 OTOCKTON PERMIT CENTER 14 209+937+9893 P.03 SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY HAZARDOUS MATERIALS - INFORMATION GUIDE The following are guidelines to identify businesses and to help building permit applicants determine whether they need to comply with the hazardous materials reporting requirements of Chapter 6.95 of the California Health and Safety Code with the Administering Agency. In San Joaquiti County, the Office of F:mergencv Services (OES) has been appointed to be the Local Administering Agency. The program will provide County and other emergency response agencies with data needed for quick and safe response to hazardous material incidents and community :fight -[o -know. This form becomes an official disclosure which will he kept on file by OES for future reference. Should you have any questions. please call our office at (209) 468-3469, "Hazardous Material" means any material that, hec fuse of its quantity, concentration, or physical or chemical characteristics. poses a significant present or potential heeard to human health and safety or to the environment if released into the work place or the environment. (Includes fuels, petroleum products, paints, propane, oxygen, ammonia (AHM), chlorine (AHMi, pesticides, fertilizers. and ha7.ardous waste:.. GUIDELINES Quest1Qa _1. if you answered -No", the business is exempted from completing the Hazardous Materials Management Plan ;HMMP). If at a later date the applicant determines that their business or a tenant will be handling hazardous materials, the applicant must inform OLS within O days. }uestigns l and 1 If you answered "Yes". the business or future occupant must meet requirements of Chapter 6.95 Section 25505 of the California Health and Safety Code prior to issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Businesses which handle hazardous materials, at the California Threshold Planning Quantities, are required to file a HM_ IP. Please contact our office for further information, 1I you answered "Yes" to Question 2 but your situation applies to one of the following cxemptron: please, mark the appropriate boxes on the survey form. A.etailil Exemption - Products packaged for direct dist6hution to the general public are exempt from the program. However, written findings may be used to eliminate the exemption for the following reasons: 1) Quantity creates an unacceptable public hazard. 2) Product is being used directly by the business as partof its operations in addition to being sold to the general public, and 3) general public docs not have ready ai:.cess to the product as it is stored by the lousiness, i.e., large quantities in a warehouse. B. Medical Exemption - Medical oil -ices which use my oxygen ar:dlor nitrous oxidc in quantities less. than 1,100 cubic feet. C. 1=IIr1il.Lxemption - Operation of a farm for the exclusive purpose of cultivating the soil. The definition of farm in the law is not be construed to include businesses providing commercial pest control services, fertilizer application services, product processing services, or packing shed services. Firms qualifying for the exemption are still required to submit an annual chemical inventory and fee to the County Agricultural Commissioners Department. Please contact the County Agricultural Commissioner's Department for further information, Businesses operating a commercial business that meets the program requirements in additiiffl t0 ot5erating a "farni" as defined must comply with the HMMP program for those materials associated with the conlmerciai business. Questions and 4: If you answered "Yes", the owner or future occupant handling an Acutely Hazardous Material must meet the requirements of Chapter 6.95, Sections 25533 and 25534 prior to the issuance of a CCYLitica[c of occupancy. Businesses will be required to file an .Acutely Hazardous Materials Registration Form and possibly complete a Risk Management and Prevention Program (RMPP). Rtv� 1196 TOTAL P.03