California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 9 - Permitting of Facilities

• Section 25200.
  (a) The department shall issue hazardous waste facilities permits to use and operate one or more hazardous waste management units at a facility that in the...
• Section 25200.1.
  Notwithstanding Section 25200, the department shall not issue a hazardous waste facility permit to a facility which commences operation on or after January 1, 1987,...
• Section 25200.1.5.
  (a)  The department may establish an administrative process to certify hazardous waste environmental technologies that it determines will not pose a significant potential hazard to...
• Section 25200.2.
  (a)  The department shall develop a permitting process for transportable hazardous waste treatment units for treating hazardous waste in accordance with the federal act and...
• Section 25200.3.
  (a)  A generator who uses the following methods for treating RCRA or non-RCRA hazardous waste in tanks or containers, which is generated onsite, and which...
• Section 25200.3.1.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1)  “Laboratory” means a workplace where relatively small quantities of hazardous chemicals are handled or...
• Section 25200.4.
  (a)  Any application for a hazardous waste facilities permit or other grant of authorization to use and operate a hazardous waste facility made pursuant to...
• Section 25200.5.
  (a)  Except as provided in Sections 25200.7 and 25200.9, any person who desires to continue the use or operation of a hazardous waste facility which...
• Section 25200.6.
  (a) The department shall not issue a hazardous waste facilities permit for an injection well or for the discharge of hazardous waste into an injection well...
• Section 25200.7.
  (a)  On or before November 8, 1988, the department shall take final action on each application for a hazardous waste facilities permit submitted to the...
• Section 25200.7.5.
  (a) On or before December 31, 2015, the department shall issue a final permit decision on an application for a hazardous waste facilities permit submitted to...
• Section 25200.8.
  Any applicant for a final hazardous waste facilities permit pursuant to Section 25200 who receives a notice of deficiency from the department concerning the permit...
• Section 25200.9.
  The department shall not grant interim status for any hazardous waste facility pursuant to Section 25200.5, unless either of the following applies:(a)  The hazardous waste...
• Section 25200.10.a.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, “facility” means the entire site that is under the control of the owner or operator seeking a hazardous waste...
• Section 25200.11.
  (a)  On or before July 1, 1993, the department shall take final action on each application for a hazardous waste facilities permit to be issued...
• Section 25200.12.
  A modification to an offsite facility operating under interim status pursuant to Section 25200.5 that requires a revised Part A application pursuant to Article 4...
• Section 25200.13.
  For purposes of Sections 25200.11 and 25200.12, “offsite facility” means a facility that serves more than one generator of hazardous waste.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch....
• Section 25200.14.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “phase I environmental assessment” means a preliminary site assessment based on reasonably available knowledge of the facility, including, but not...
• Section 25200.14.1.
  (a)  On or before July 1, 1997, the department shall complete an evaluation of the phase I environmental assessment requirement specified by Section 25200.14, and...
• Section 25200.15.
  (a) The owner or operator of a facility that has a hazardous waste facilities permit issued pursuant to Section 25200 or 25201.6 may change facility structures...
• Section 25200.16.
  (a)  The department may administratively convert the hazardous waste facilities permit or grant of interim status of a hazardous waste management unit authorized pursuant to...
• Section 25200.17.
  (a)  Upon petition, the department may, by regulation, add new treatment activities to the list of activities eligible for operation pursuant to a permit-by-rule, under...
• Section 25200.19.
  (a)  A hazardous waste facility that obtains a hazardous waste facilities permit to receive hazardous wastes from offsite locations may conduct bulk, packaged, or containerized...
• Section 25200.21.
  On or before January 1, 2018, the department shall adopt regulations establishing or updating criteria used for the issuance of a new or modified permit...
• Section 25200.23.
  On or before July 1, 2018, the department shall develop and implement programmatic reforms designed to improve the protectiveness, timeliness, legal defensibility, and enforceability of...
• Section 25201.
  (a)  Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), no owner or operator of a storage facility, treatment facility, transfer facility, resource recovery facility, or...
• Section 25201.1.
  (a) A solid waste facility, as defined in Section 40194 of the Public Resources Code, or any recycling facility, that accepts and processes empty aerosol cans...
• Section 25201.3.
  (a)  A local agency shall not deem any of the following generators performing any of the following treatment activities to be a hazardous waste treatment...
• Section 25201.4.
  (a)  (1)  The unified program agency shall develop and implement a program to inspect persons operating pursuant to a permit-by-rule, conditional authorization, or conditional exemption,...
• Section 25201.4.1.
  (a)  Except as provided in subdivision (c), any person subject to the notification requirements of Sections 25110.10, 25123.3, 25144.6, 25200.3, 25201.5, or 25201.14 shall only...
• Section 25201.5.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hazardous waste facilities permit is not required for a generator who treats hazardous waste of a total...
• Section 25201.6.
  (a) For purposes of this section and Section 25205.2, the following terms have the following meaning:(1) “Series A standardized permit” means a permit issued to a facility...
• Section 25201.6.1.
  The department shall seek a determination from the United States Environmental Protection Agency as to the conditions, if any, under which the department may authorize...
• Section 25201.7.
  The department shall, upon request of a facility subject to the regulations concerning operation under a permit-by-rule for treatment of wastes which are hazardous solely...
• Section 25201.8.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a generator of effluent hazardous waste from dry cleaning operations who treats the waste onsite is not a...
• Section 25201.9.
  (a)  Upon the written request of any person, the department may enter into an agreement with that person pursuant to which the department will perform...
• Section 25201.10.a.
  Any information which a generator is required to provide to the department or to a local agency pursuant to Section 25200.3, 25200.14 or 25201.5 or...
• Section 25201.11.
  (a) Copyright protection and all other rights and privileges provided pursuant to Title 17 of the United States Code are available to the department to the...
• Section 25201.12.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a hazardous waste facilities permit or other grant of authorization from the department, and payment of any fee imposed...
• Section 25201.13.
  (a)  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that demineralization of water is a standard industrial water purification process used by utilities and industry. The regeneration...
• Section 25201.14.
  (a)  To the extent consistent with the federal act, the following activities are exempt from this article, including the requirements of obtaining a hazardous waste...
• Section 25201.15.
  (a)  For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meaning: (1)  “Biotechnology manufacturing or biotechnology process development activities” means activities conducted...
• Section 25201.16.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1)  “Aerosol can” means a container in which gas under pressure is...
• Section 25201.17.
  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:(1) “Pharmaceutical manufacturing or pharmaceutical process development activities” means activities conducted in North American Industry...
• Section 25202.
  (a)  The owner or operator of a hazardous waste facility who holds a hazardous waste facilities permit or a grant of interim status shall comply...
• Section 25202.5.
  (a) With respect to any hazardous waste facility permitted pursuant to Section 25200 or granted interim status pursuant to Section 25200.5, the department may do either...
• Section 25202.6.
  The owner of land subject to an easement, covenant, restriction, or servitude, required by the department pursuant to Section 25202.5, may make a written request...
• Section 25202.7.
  Any decision of the department pursuant to either Section 25202.5 or Section 25202.6 shall be subject to review by a court of competent jurisdiction as...
• Section 25202.9.
  The department shall require, as a permit condition when issuing a permit for an onsite hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility that the generator...
• Section 25203.
  It is unlawful for any person to dispose of a hazardous waste except at a disposal site or facility of an owner or operator who...
• Section 25204.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, “residuals repository” means a hazardous waste facility, or an operational unit at a hazardous waste facility, which meets all...
• Section 25204.5.
  Any action taken by the department pursuant to this article shall be consistent with all applicable regulations adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board,...
• Section 25204.6.
  (a)  On or before January 1, 1995, the Secretary for Environmental Protection shall develop a hazardous waste facility regulation and permitting consolidation program, after holding...
• Section 25204.7.
  (a)  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a generator conducting a treatment activity that is eligible for operation under a permit-by-rule pursuant to the department’s...
• Section 25205.
  (a)  Except as provided in Section 25245.5, the department shall not issue or renew a permit to operate a hazardous waste facility unless the owner...

Last modified: October 22, 2018