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San Joaquin County Mobile Variance HHVVVAR000502 Page 2 This variance is requested for household hazardous wastes to be collected at a three- day collection event. The applicant and their contractor have successfully conducted several events in the past years. No business or agricultural wastes nor any explosive, radioactive, or infectious/medical wastes, or compressed gas cylinders will be accepted at this collection. The applicant will be the operator of the collection event 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 collection event. At the close of the collection event, the hazardous waste will be transported under manifest or bill of lading, as appropriate, by registered hazardous waste haulers to 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). III. SPECIFIC WAIVER. At this time, DTSC is waiving the requirement that the applicant obtain a hazardous waste facility permit for collection of HHW, and is waiving