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III. ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING,IMPACTS AND MITIGATION MEASURES G. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY plan (Maclsaac,2000). The facility has permits from the City of Stockton Fire Department for the storage of combustible fibers and in 1992 was issued a permit to remove three underground diesel tanks: one 10,000-gallon tank and two 7,500-gallon tanks(Rose, 1999). These materials pose fire and toxic health risks, and the pressurized gases include the risk of explosion (from being stored under pressure) (Stockton Scavengers, 1996). The facility's Hazardous Materials Management Plan consists of emergency procedures, including the following components: • designation of facility personnel who are responsible for various elements of the plan; • evacuation procedures, including the methods of notifying personnel of an emergency (alarm and public address system for office, shop, and yard, and radio contact for drivers), and posting of evacuation maps in the office, shop and dispatch office; • leak and spill control procedures,including placement of fire extinguishers, first aid kits, and absorbent at various locations on the site and provision of pull station emergency equipment and fire sprinkler system equipment in the maintenance building and maintenance sheds; ® an employee Hazardous Materials Safety and Training Program; and • a 1996 chemical inventory. Loadcheck Program The Stockton Scavengers Transfer Station is not authorized to accept hazardous waste. However,the receipt of small volumes of household hazardous waste commingled with refuse is not uncommon at solid waste facilities,and loadcheck programs are required by state law (as noted above)to help prevent the inadvertent acceptance of prohibited wastes. The Stockton Scavengers Association's existing loadcheck program includes a random load check conducted bi-weekly, using a form to document inspections that is signed by the inspector and the driver, as well as visually screening refuse on the tipping floor, and monthly training of transfer station personnel to recognize and respond to hazardous material found in the refuse. When hazardous material is found, it is returned to the customer that generated it; if the material cannot be returned, it is placed in a storage box on site until it is picked up by the identified customer (Stockton Scavengers Association,n.d.). LOCAL HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAMS California cities and counties are required by state law(Public Resources Code Sections 41500 and 415 10)to prepare household hazardous waste elements,as part of their solid waste management plans, to identify a"program for the safe collection,recycling,treatment, and disposal of hazardous wastes [that] are generated by households [and that] should be separated from the solid waste stream." Such programs are intended to lower the incidence of HHW being commingled with municipal solid waste. The incorporated cities of San Joaquin County including Stockton joined with the County in preparing and implementing a Countywide HHW Stockton Scavenger Transfer Station Erpansion III.G.3 ESA 1990190