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San Joaquin County Mobile Variance HHWVAR990403 Page 2 section 261.4(b), Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations (40 CFR), excludes household hazardous waste from regulation. This variance is requested for household hazardous wastes to be collected at a mobile three-day collection event. The applicant and their contractor have successfully conducted several events in the past years. No business or agricultural wastes are to be accepted. Explosives, radioactives, infectious/medical wastes, and compressed gas cylinders will also not be accepted. The applicant will be the operator of the mobile collection events and will assume generator status for the collected HHW. The contractor will collect, package and coordinate transportation and disposal for the hazardous waste brought to the mobile collection events. At the close of the mobile collection event, the hazardous waste will be transported under manifest or bill of lading by registered hazardous waste haulers to appropriate authorized treatment, storage, disposal or recycling facilities. Authority for granting the variance is.contained in HSC, section 25143: The hazardous waste is solely a non-RCRA hazardous waste, or the hazardous waste management activity is subject to RCRA but has been granted a waiver or variance pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), or is not otherwise regulated pursuant to RCRA. DETERMINATIONS. The hazardous waste management activity is insignificant as a potential hazard to human health and safety, and the environment. Issuing this variance will not have a significant effect on the environment within the meaning of Title 14, Cal. Code Regs., section 15061(b)(3). DTSC has determined that the applicant meets the requirements, as outlined in HSC, section 25143, for waiver of the requirements specified in HSC, section 25201(a) and Title 22, Cal. Code Regs., Division 4.5, Chapter 20. Based on the review of the evidence provided by the applicant, DTSC finds the hazardous waste or the hazardous waste management activity is insignificant or unimportant as a potential hazard to human health and safety and the environment. CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) EXCLUSION. Based on its review of the same evidence, DTSC finds that it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the granting of this variance may have a significant effect on the environment, within the meaning of Title 14, Cal. Code Regs., section 15061(b)(3).