California Code of Regulations › Title 27 - Environmental Protection › Division 1 - General Functions and Responsibilities › Subdivision 0.5 - Administration › Chapter 1 - CONFLICT OF INTEREST CODE FOR THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY OF CALIFORNIA › Section 10010 - General Provisions - Incorporation by Reference of Standard Conflict of Interest Code

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The Political Reform Act (Government Code Sections
					 81000, et
					 seq.) requires state and local government agencies to adopt and promulgate
					 Conflict of Interest Codes. The Fair Political Practices Commission has adopted
					 a regulation (2 Cal. Code of Regs. §
										18730) which contains the terms of
					 a standard Conflict of Interest Code which can be incorporated by reference
					 into an agency's code. After public notice, it may be amended by the Fair
					 Political Practices Commission to conform to amendments in the Political Reform
					 Act. Therefore, the terms of California Code of Regulations, title 2, Section
					 18730, and any amendments to it
					 duly adopted by the Fair Political Practices Commission, are incorporated
					 herein by reference. This regulation and the attached Appendices designating
					 officials and employees and establishing disclosure categories, shall
					 constitute the Conflict of Interest Code of the Office of the Secretary for the
					 California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA).
Designated employees shall file their statements with the
					 agency, which will make the statements available for public inspection and
					 reproduction. (Gov. Code §
										81008).
					 Upon receipt of the statement for Agency Secretary, the agency shall make and
					 retain a copy and forward the original of each statement to the Fair Political
					 Practices Commission. Statements for all other designated employees will be
					 retained by CalEPA.
Appendix A
Disclosure Categories
Category 1
Every person in this Category must report: All interests in
					 real property in the State of California, as well as investments, business
					 positions in business entities, and all sources of income, including receipt of
					 loans, gifts, and travel payments.
Category 2
Every person in this Category must report: Investments and
					 business positions in business entities, and all sources of income, including
					 receipt of loans, gifts, and travel payments from, entities that are subject to
					 the regulatory authority of CaIEPA and its boards, departments and office; and
					 all sources of income, including receipt of loans, gifts, and travel payments,
					 from nonprofit, trade and professional organizations that appear before or
					 participate in other types of proceedings formally or informally with CalEPA
					 and its boards, departments and office.
Category 3
Every person in this Category must report: Investments, and
					 business positions in business entities, and all sources of income, including
					 receipt of loans, gifts, and travel payments from, sources of the type that
					 provide services, supplies, materials, machinery or equipment of the type
					 utilized by CalEPA and its boards, departments and office.
Appendix B
List of Designated Positions
Position
Disclosure Category
Agency Secretary
1
Agency Information Officer
1
Air Pollution Specialists
1
Air Resources Supervisors
1
Associate Business Management Analysts
3
Associate Governmental Progam Analysts (Facility
							 Services)
3
Assistant Secretaries
1
Business Services Officers
4
Career Executive Assignment (CEA) Positions
1
Counsels
1
Deputy Secretaries
1
Environmental Program Managers
2
Environmental Scientists (All Levels)
2
Exempt Positions (Other)
2
Integrated Waste Management Specialists
3
Staff Information Systems Analysts
3
Staff Programmer Analysts
3
Staff Services Managers (Facility Services)
3
Undersecretary
1
Consultants/New Positions
*
__________
* Consultants/New Positions shall be
							 included in the list of designated employees and shall disclose pursuant to the
							 broadest disclosure category in the code subject to the following
							 limitation:
The Agency Secretary may determine in
							 writing that a particular consultant, although a "designated position," is
							 hired to perform a range of duties that are limited in scope and, thus, is not
							 required to fully comply with the disclosure requirements in this section. Such
							 written determination shall include a description of the consultant's or new
							 position's duties and, based upon that description, a statement of the extent
							 of disclosure requirements. The Agency Secretary's determination is a public
							 record and shall be retained for public inspection in the same manner and
							 location as this Conflict of Interest Code.
1. New
					 subdivision
					 0.5, chapter 1 and section filed
					 1-10-96; operative 2-9-96. Approved by Fair Political Practices Commission
					 11-1-95 (Register 96, No. 2).
2. Repealer of section and new section
					 and Appendix filed 7-23-2002; operative 8-22-2002. Approved by Fair Political
					 Practices Commission 5-16-2002 (Register 2002, No. 30).
3. Repealer
					 and new section and Appendix A and Appendix B filed 12-17-2009; operative
					 1-16-2010. Approved by Fair Political Practices Commission 11-16-2009 (Register
					 2009, No. 51).
4. Amendment of general provisions and Appendices A
					 and B filed 10-28-2015; operative 11-27-2015 pursuant to Cal. Code Regs., tit.
					 2, section
					 18750(l).
					 Approved by the Fair Political Practices Commission 9-24-2015 and submitted to
					 OAL for filing and printing only pursuant to Cal. Code Regs., tit. 2, section
					 18750(k)
					 (Register 2015, No. 44).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						87300 and
						87306,
						Government Code. Reference: Sections
						87300,
						87301,
						87302 and
						87500,
						Government Code; and Section
						18730 of Title 2, Division 6 of
						California Code of Regulations.