California Health and Safety Code ARTICLE 2 - Hazardous Materials Management

  • Section 25531.
    (a)  The Legislature finds and declares that a significant number of chemical manufacturing and processing facilities generate, store, treat, handle, refine, process, and transport hazardous...
  • Section 25531.1.
    The Legislature finds and declares that the public has a right to know about acutely hazardous materials accident risks that may affect their health and...
  • Section 25531.2.
    (a) The Legislature finds and declares that as the state implements the federal accidental release prevention program pursuant to this article, the Office of Emergency Services...
  • Section 25532.
    Unless the context indicates otherwise, the following definitions govern the construction of this article:(a) “Accidental release” means an unanticipated emission of a regulated substance or other...
  • Section 25533.
    (a)  The program for prevention of accidental releases of regulated substances adopted by the Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to subsection (r) of Section 112 of...
  • Section 25534.
    (a)  For any stationary source with one or more covered processes, the administering agency shall make a preliminary determination as to whether there is a...
  • Section 25534.05.
    (a)  The office, in consultation with the administering agencies, industry, the public, and other interested parties, shall adopt regulations, initially as emergency regulations, for all...
  • Section 25534.06.
    (a)  A city or county that adopts, amends, or repeals an ordinance related to the regulation of regulated substances pursuant to this article shall do...
  • Section 25534.1.
    Each RMP required to be prepared pursuant to this article shall give consideration to the proximity of the facility or proposed facility to populations located...
  • Section 25534.2.
    Any new or modified stationary source which is required to prepare an RMP pursuant to this article shall be subject to the requirements of Section...
  • Section 25534.5.
    The administering agency with jurisdiction over a stationary source or facility may have access to inspect the stationary source and review all technical and other...
  • Section 25535.
    (a)  An owner or operator of a stationary source submitting an RMP pursuant to this article shall submit the RMP to the administering agency after...
  • Section 25535.1.
    (a)  Except as otherwise provided in this article, an owner or operator of a stationary source shall prepare an RMP if an RMP is required...
  • Section 25535.2.
    Within 15 days after the administering agency determines that an RMP is complete, the unified program agency shall make the RMP available to the public...
  • Section 25535.5.
    Any fee imposed on any stationary source to cover the administering agency’s cost of implementing the accidental release prevention program pursuant to this article shall...
  • Section 25536.
    (a) A person or a stationary source with one or more covered processes shall comply with the requirements of this article no later than the latest...
  • Section 25536.5.
    (a) A person or a stationary source that was required to prepare, submit, and implement a risk management and prevention program pursuant to this article as...
  • Section 25536.6.
    (a) Each local implementing agency shall develop an integrated alerting and notification system, in coordination with local emergency management agencies, unified program agencies, local first response...
  • Section 25536.7.
    (a) (1) An owner or operator of a stationary source that is engaged in activities described in Code 324110 or 325110 of the North American Industry Classification...
  • Section 25536.9.
    On or before February 1, 2018, an owner or operator of a stationary source that claims that it is exempt from the requirement in paragraph...
  • Section 25537.
    (a)  The administering agency shall inspect every stationary source required to be registered pursuant to this article at least once every three years to determine...
  • Section 25537.5.
    (a)  Where a stationary source has one or more covered processes, and is subject to the requirements of Article 1 (commencing with Section 25500) for...
  • Section 25538.
    (a)  If a stationary source believes that any information required to be reported, submitted, or otherwise provided to the administering agency pursuant to this article...
  • Section 25539.
    The office and each administering agency, in implementing this article, shall, upon request, involve and cooperate with local and state government officials, emergency planning committees,...
  • Section 25540.
    (a) Any person or stationary source that violates this article shall be civilly or administratively liable to the unified program agency in an amount of not...
  • Section 25540.1.
    A person or stationary source that knowingly violates this article after reasonable notice of the violation is guilty of a misdemeanor and may, upon conviction,...
  • Section 25540.5.
    Any person or stationary source who violates any rule or regulation, emission limitation, permit condition, order, fee requirement, filing requirement, duty to allow or carry...
  • Section 25541.
    Any person or stationary source who knowingly makes any false material statement, representation or certification in any record, report, or other document filed, maintained, or...
  • Section 25541.3.
    Any person or stationary source who knowingly violates any requirement of this article, including any fee or filing requirement, for which delegation of federal implementation...
  • Section 25541.5.
    If civil penalties are recovered pursuant to Section 25540 or 25540.5, the same offense shall not be the subject of a criminal prosecution pursuant to...
  • Section 25542.
    (a)  It is the intent of the Legislature that for those facilities with an RMP incorporating some, or all, of the federal or state process...
  • Section 25543.
    The office shall obtain and maintain state delegation of the federal accidental release prevention program established pursuant to subsection (r) of Section 7412 of Title...
  • Section 25543.1.
    (a)  Any person may submit a petition to the office for the addition of a material to, or for the deletion of a material from,...
  • Section 25543.2.
    (a)  A stationary source that intends to modify a facility which may result either in a significant increase in the amount of regulated substances handled...
  • Section 25543.3.
    On or before June 30, 1998, the office, in consultation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, shall do all of the following:(a)  Review...

Last modified: October 22, 2018