(a) The department shall, pursuant to this section, provide direction and technical data to counties and regional councils of governments to assist them in preparing planning documents for the management of hazardous wastes produced within their jurisdictions.
(b) The department shall do all of the following:
(1) On or before June 30, 1987, after conducting a workshop with county and city government officials and industry and environmental representatives, prepare and transmit to counties and regional councils of governments guidelines for the preparation and adoption of county and regional hazardous waste management plans. Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code does not apply to the preparation and transmittal of these guidelines. The guidelines shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(A) A listing of types or categories of hazardous wastes that can be used in characterizing the hazardous waste stream in each county or region.
(B) Methods for determining the capacity of the hazardous waste facilities that currently manage the hazardous wastes in the county or region and for assessing the capacity of these hazardous waste facilities to manage these hazardous wastes in the future.
(C) Methods for assessing the need to establish new, or expand existing, capacity for the management of hazardous wastes produced in each county or region.
(D) Methods for estimating the amounts of hazardous waste produced by small businesses and households.
(2) On or before June 30, 1987, provide to each county and regional council of governments, all of the following information:
(A) Available data on the types and quantities of hazardous wastes produced in the county or region. The department shall inform the counties and regional councils of governments of the strengths and limitations of the data.
(B) A listing of the hazardous waste facilities that have received hazardous waste facilities permits or grants of interim status in each county or region. The listing shall specify whether the facilities are onsite or offsite facilities and whether the facilities are used for the storage, treatment, transfer, recycling, or disposal of hazardous waste.
(C) A listing of producers of hazardous wastes known to the department in the county or region.
(D) An assessment of overall needed capacities for treating and disposing of hazardous wastes at the state and regional levels through the year 1994.
(E) A description of state policies and programs concerning the management of hazardous waste, including, but not limited to, the policies and programs for recycling various types of hazardous wastes, requiring the treatment of particular types of hazardous wastes, restricting the disposal to land of particular types or categories of hazardous wastes, encouraging the reduction of the amounts of hazardous waste produced at the source of production, and any other policies and programs that affect the need for additional management capacity in various types of hazardous waste facilities.
(F) An assessment of the potential for recycling, or reducing the volume of, various types of hazardous wastes in various classes of industry.
(Added by Stats. 1986, Ch. 1504, Sec. 6.)
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