SECTIONS 25369 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 25369

25369. The department shall establish an abandoned site program to
survey counties where abandoned site surveys have not been completed.
As part of the program, the department shall do all of the
following:
(a) Develop protocols and procedures for conducting an abandoned
site survey of rural unsurveyed counties. These protocols shall
address all types of sites likely to be found in these counties,
including, but not limited to, crop-duster airstrips, abandoned
mining operations, pesticide formulators and manufacturers, abandoned
wells, oil exploration and extraction, wood treatment plants, land
disposal sites, and scrap metal operations.
(b) Notify the California regional water quality control boards,
the Department of Fish and Game, local health officers, county
directors of environmental health, county agricultural commissioners,
and state and federal land management agencies of the abandoned site
program. Notifications shall consist of the following:
(1) Explanation of the abandoned site program.
(2) Description of the California Superfund Program, including the
availability of state funds for cleaning up abandoned hazardous
waste sites, and that discovery of a site does not impose liability
for cleanup.
(3) Provide a copy of the program's protocols and procedures
outlining sites the state is attempting to identify.
(4) Request that, as part of each respective agency's duties, it
report to the state abandoned site program any suspected abandoned
waste site.
(5) Request that each participating agency, as a part of its
regular activities, notify the department of sites identified in
writing at least quarterly.
(c) Prepare an inventory of suspected abandoned hazardous
substance release sites.
(d) Contact the owners and occupants of suspected abandoned sites.
(e) Maintain individual records for each suspected abandoned site.
(f) Develop a methodology for screening sites identified.
(g) Conduct a field assessment of those sites which the screening
procedures specified in subdivision (f) indicate require this
assessment.
(h) Rank the assessed sites, in order of priority, as presenting a
potential hazard to public health or the environment consistent with
Section 25356 or regulations adopted pursuant to that section.
(i) Report to the Legislature quarterly, on an update on the
progress of the abandoned sites survey, identifying which agencies
have identified and reported sites to the department, as well as
which agencies have reported that they do not intend to participate
in the program.