California Code of Regulations › Title 27 - Environmental Protection › Division 3 - Electronic Submittal of Information › Subdivision 1 - Data Dictionary for Regulated Activities › Chapter 5 - COMPLIANCE, MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT (CME) INFORMATION › 2 - Inspection Information

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
ID
ELEMENT
CODES/CRITERIA
LENGTH
TYPE
INFORMATION
							 DESCRIPTION
CERS MINIMALLY REQUIRED
							 FIELDS
1
Facility ID
							 Number
13
AN
A facility identifier assigned by
							 the local regulator supporting cross-linking of CERS and local data system
							 records. Because CUPAs do not consistently apply the original regulatory
							 definition of this field (2 AN county 3 AN jurisdiction 6 AN facility number),
							 CERS accepts any alphanumeric string up to 13 characters. The original
							 regulator goals of this field are fulfilled through the CERS ID and CERS System
							 Field "FacilityRegulatorKey" (20.0084).
False
1a
CERS ID
Cal/EPA assigned, 8- or 9-
							 digit ID assigned to a specific facility that never has leading zeroes (begins
							 at 10000001). Cal/EPA does not anticipate using 9- digit CERS IDs until the
							 year 2020 or beyond.
9
N
A CERS ID is a
							 Cal/EPA-assigned, 8- or 9- digit ID to uniquely identify a facility in CERS.
							 The CERS ID should remain unchanged across different owners/operators of a
							 facility.
False
3
Business Name
70
AN
Full legal name of business.
True
905
Program Element
a = Hazardous
							 Materials Release Response Plans (HMRRP)
1
AN
Program
							 elements inspected. Enter one program element only. For example, a facility
							 inspected for compliance with UST, hazardous waste and
True
b = California Accidental Release
							 Prevention (CalARP)
hazardous materials storage
							 regulations would have three records, one for each program element. Each record
							 would have a unique set of
c = Underground Storage Tank
							 (UST)
violations, even though all inspections took
							 place on the same date. For Tiered Permitting options
d = Aboveground Petroleum Storage
							 Act (APSA)
enter the highest tier.
e = Hazardous Waste
							 Generator
f = Hazardous Waste RCRA Large
							 Quantity Generator (RCRA LQG)
Hazardous Waste RCRA
							 Large Quantity Generator (RCRA LQG) is a subset of Hazardous Waste
							 Generator.
g = Hazardous Waste
							 Recycler
Conditionally Authorized (CA) is only
							 available if PBR is not used. Conditionally Exempt (CE)
h = Permit by Rule (PBR)
is only available if PBR and CA are not used.
i = Conditionally Authorized
							 (CA)
j = Conditionally Exempt
							 (CE)
k = Household Hazardous Waste
							 (HHW)
906
Inspection
							 Date
YYYY-MM-DD
10
D
Date of completion of
							 inspection. For multiple day inspections, enter the first day of the
							 inspection.
True
907
Inspection Type
a = Routine
							 Inspection
1
AN
Indicates if inspection is routine or
							 other. A routine inspection is a regularly scheduled
True
b = Other Inspection
inspection to evaluate compliance. Other inspections include
							 complaint investigations, closure, release investigations, tank installation
							 and/or removal oversight, tank cleaning, and follow-up enforcement inspections,
							 or other inspections that may be in addition to a regularly scheduled
							 inspection. This includes verification inspections for owners/operators of
							 aboveground storage tanks having to prepare a spill prevention control and
							 countermeasure plan. It does not include regularly scheduled inspections, field
							 or site visits whose principle purpose is informational or educational,
							 pollution prevention education, or visits needed to verify administrative
							 information or orient new owners or operators. It does not include additional
							 days of multiple day inspections at the same facility. A complaint inspection
							 is a service request originating from any outside party, including the public
							 that initiates a site visit outside of the routine inspection cycle.
910
Number of Class I Violations
2
N
A Class I violation means a deviation that
							 represents a significant threat to human health or safety or the environment
							 because of the volume of the material, the relative hazardousness of the
							 material, or the proximity of the population at risk. The deviation must be
							 significant enough that it could result in releases of material to the
							 environment, material failing to be delivered to an authorized facility,
							 failure to detect releases of material, inadequate financial resources in the
							 case of releases of material, or inadequate financial resources to pay for
							 facility closure, perform emergency cleanup operations or other corrective
							 actions. A Class I violation is also a deviation that is a chronic violation or
							 committed by a recalcitrant violator. A Class I violation is typically one that
							 is could be referred to the District Attorney or City Attorney for formal
							 enforcement action. Sanctions are typically imposed for failure to correct the
							 violation. Class I violations are defined in the Health and Safety Code (HSC)
							 section 25110.8.5.
True
911
Number of Class II Violations
2
N
A Class II violation means a deviation that is not
							 a Class I violation. This count includes violations which would be considered
							 minor, but are knowing, willful, or intentional, or enable the violator to
							 benefit economically from noncompliance, either by reduced costs or competitive
							 advantage. Do not include minor violations in this count. Class II violations
							 are defined in 22 California Code of Regulations (CCR)
							 66260.10.
True
912
Number of Minor Violations
2
N
A minor violation means a deviation from any
							 regulation, standard, requirement, or permit condition, that is not a Class I
							 violation. Exclude from this count all violations where the violation is
							 knowing, willful, or intentional, or enables the violator to benefit
							 economically from noncompliance, either by reduced costs or competitive
							 advantage. These are counted as Class II violations. Also exclude any violation
							 that is a chronic violation or that is committed by a recalcitrant violator,
							 since these are counted as Class I violations. Do not report an inspection
							 record as a Notice of Violation (NOV). CERS will automatically count an
							 inspection record with listed violations as an NOV. If a UPA issues a separate
							 NOV document, independent of the inspection report, the document should be
							 reported as an NOV.
True
913a
Significant Operational
a = With
							 only Release Detection
1
AN
Indicates if facility
							 contains significant operational compliance criteria for release
							 detection,
False
Compliance
b = With only Release
							 Prevention
release prevention, or both based on the
							 inspection.
c =With both Release Detection
							 and Release Prevention
d = No Significant Operational
							 Compliance
917
Date Returned to
							 Compliance
YYYY-MM-DD
10
D
Date physical
							 compliance was determined by the CUPA for all violations identified during the
							 inspection. This may not be based on a site visit, but is the date compliance
							 was verified. It may be based on correspondence received from the regulated
							 business.
False
929
Inspection Comments
1000
AN
Additional details about this
							 Inspection.
False
1. New table
					 filed 11-16-2004; operative 12-16-2004 (Register 2004, No. 47).
2.
					 Amendment filed 12-18-2007; operative 1-17-2008 (Register 2007, No.
					 51).
3. Amendment filed 12-17-2013; operative 12-17-2013 pursuant to
					 Government Code section
					 11343.4(b)(3)
					 (Register 2013, No. 51).
4. Amendment of Data Element ID Nos. 906,
					 907 and 912 filed 6-14-2018; operative 7-1-2018 pursuant to Government Code
					 section
					 11343.4(b)(3)
					 (Register 2018, No. 24).