SECTIONS 39655 - California Statutes

HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE

SECTION 39655

39655. As used in this chapter:
(a) "Toxic air contaminant" means an air pollutant which may cause
or contribute to an increase in mortality or in serious illness, or
which may pose a present or potential hazard to human health. A
substance that is listed as a hazardous air pollutant pursuant to
subsection (b) of Section 112 of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 7412
(b)) is a toxic air contaminant. A toxic air contaminant which is a
pesticide shall be regulated in its pesticidal use by the Department
of Pesticide Regulation pursuant to Article 1.5 (commencing with
Section 14021) of Chapter 3 of Division 7 of the Food and
Agricultural Code.
(b) "Airborne toxic control measure" means either of the
following:
(1) Recommended methods, and, where appropriate, a range of
methods, that reduce, avoid, or eliminate the emissions of a toxic
air contaminant. Airborne toxic control measures include, but are not
limited to, emission limitations, control technologies, the use of
operational and maintenance conditions, closed system engineering,
design, equipment, or work practice standards, and the reduction,
avoidance, or elimination of emissions through process changes,
substitution of materials, or other modifications.
(2) Emission standards adopted by the Environmental Protection
Agency pursuant to Section 112 of the federal act (42 U.S.C. Sec.
7412).
(c) "Pesticide" means any economic poison as defined in Section
12753 of the Food and Agricultural Code.
(d) "Federal act" means the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et
seq.), as amended by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (P.L.
101-549), and as the federal act may be further amended.
(e) "Office" means the Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment.