California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 5 - Uses of the State Account

• Section 25350.
  For response actions taken pursuant to the federal act, only those costs for actions that are consistent with the priorities, guidelines, criteria, and regulations contained...
• Section 25351.2.
  (a) A city or county may initiate a removal or remedial action for a site listed pursuant to Section 25356 in accordance with this section. Except...
• Section 25351.5.
  The department shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry out its responsibilities pursuant to this chapter, including, but not limited to, regulations governing the expenditure...
• Section 25351.7.
  Any treatment, storage, transfer, or disposal facility built on the Stringfellow Quarry Class I Hazardous Waste Disposal Site, that was built for the purpose of...
• Section 25351.8.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including, but not limited to, Sections 25334.5 and 25356, the department shall place the highest priority on taking removal...
• Section 25352.
  Money deposited in the state account may also be appropriated by the Legislature to the department on a specific site basis for the following purposes:(a)...
• Section 25353.
  (a) Except as provided in (b), the department may not expend funds from the state account for a removal or remedial action with respect to a...
• Section 25353.5.
  (a)  (1)  Notwithstanding Section 12439 of the Government Code, the Controller may not eliminate any direct or indirect position that provides oversight and related support...
• Section 25354.
  (a)  There is hereby continuously appropriated from the state account to the department the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) for each fiscal year as...
• Section 25354.5.
  (a) A state or local law enforcement officer or investigator or other law enforcement agency employee who, in the course of an official investigation or enforcement...
• Section 25355.
  (a)  The Governor is responsible for the coordination of all state response actions for sites identified in Section 25356 in order to assure the maximum...
• Section 25355.2.
  (a)  Except as provided in subdivision (c), the department or the regional board shall require any responsible party who is required to comply with operation...
• Section 25355.5.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b), (c), and (d), no money shall be expended from the state account for removal or remedial actions on any...
• Section 25355.6.
  (a) The State Water Resources Control Board or a California regional water quality control board that has jurisdiction over a hazardous substance release site pursuant to...
• Section 25355.7.
  The department and the State Water Resources Control Board concurrently shall establish policies and procedures consistent with this chapter that the department’s representatives shall follow...
• Section 25355.8.
  (a)  The department shall not agree to oversee the preparation of, or to review, a preliminary endangerment assessment for property if action is, or may...
• Section 25356.
  (a)  (1)  The department shall adopt, by regulation, criteria for the selection of hazardous substance release sites for a response action under this chapter. The...
• Section 25356.1.
  (a) For purposes of this section, “regional board” means a California regional water quality control board and “state board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.(b) Except...
• Section 25356.1.3.
  (a)  In exercising its authority at a hazardous substance release site pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 25355.5 or 25358.3, the department shall issue orders...
• Section 25356.1.5.
  (a) Any response action taken or approved pursuant to this chapter shall be based upon, and no less stringent than, all of the following requirements:(1) The requirements...
• Section 25357.
  Expenditures from the state account shall not be made in excess of the total amount of money in the state account at any one time....
• Section 25357.5.
  (a)  In any judicial action under this chapter, judicial review of any issues concerning the adequacy of any response action taken or ordered by the...
• Section 25358.
  The state shall actively seek to obtain all federal funds to which it is entitled under the federal act and shall take all actions necessary...
• Section 25358.1.
  (a) The department, a representative of the department, or any person designated by the director may take the actions specified in this section only if there...
• Section 25358.2.
  (a) “Trade secrets,” as used in this section, may include, but are not limited to, any formula, plan, pattern, process, tool, mechanism, compound, procedure, production data,...
• Section 25358.3.
  (a)  Whenever the director determines that there may be an imminent or substantial endangerment to the public health or welfare or to the environment, because...
• Section 25358.4.
  The analysis of any material that is required to demonstrate compliance with this chapter shall be performed by a laboratory accredited by the State Department...
• Section 25358.5.
  Any removal or remedial action taken or contracted by the department pursuant to Section 25354 or subdivision (a) of Section 25358.3 shall be exempt from...
• Section 25358.6.
  (a)  The department may prequalify bidders for remedial or removal actions taken pursuant to Section 25354 or subdivision (a) of Section 25358.3. The department may...
• Section 25358.6.1.
  (a)  For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall apply: (1)  “Engineering, architectural, environmental, landscape architectural, construction project management, or land surveying services” includes...
• Section 25358.7.
  (a)  The department or the regional board, as appropriate, shall take the actions specified in this section to provide an opportunity for meaningful public participation...
• Section 25358.7.1.
  (a)  At each site, a community advisory group may be established by the affected community to review any response action and comment on the response...
• Section 25358.7.2.
  (a)  On or before July 1, 2000, the department and the State Water Resources Control Board shall establish two community service offices, one to serve...
• Section 25358.8.
  A community advisory group established pursuant to Section 25358.7.1 may request, in writing, and a potentially responsible party or parties may fund, a technical assistance...
• Section 25358.9.
  (a)  To the extent consistent with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, (42 U.S.C. Sec. 6901 et seq.), the department may...
• Section 25359.
  (a)  Any person who is liable for a release, or threat of a release, of hazardous substances and who fails, without sufficient cause, as determined...
• Section 25359.1.
  There shall be no recovery of punitive damages under Section 25359 for an injury to or loss of natural resources that occurred wholly before September...
• Section 25359.2.
  Any person subject to a removal or remedial action order or other order issued pursuant to Section 25355.5 or 25358.3 who does not comply with...
• Section 25359.3.
  (a) The department may issue a complaint to any person subject to a penalty pursuant to Sections 25359.2 and 25359.4. The complaint shall allege the acts...
• Section 25359.4.
  (a) A person shall not release, or allow or cause a release of, a reportable quantity of a hazardous substance into the environment that is not...
• Section 25359.4.5.
  (a) A responsible party who has entered into an agreement with the department and is in compliance with the terms of that agreement, or who is...
• Section 25359.5.
  (a) After making a determination, based upon a preliminary site assessment that there has been a release of a hazardous substance on, under, or into the...
• Section 25359.6.
  (a) The director shall notify, within 20 working days, each of the appropriate county health officers as to all the potential abandoned sites of which the...
• Section 25359.7.
  (a)  Any owner of nonresidential real property who knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, that any release of hazardous substance has come to be...

Last modified: October 22, 2018