California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery › Chapter 3 - Minimum Standards for Solid Waste Handling and Disposal › Article 3 - Emergency Waiver of Standards › Section 17210.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "Agency" means
				  the local agency responsible for compiling the disposal information from
				  haulers and operators. The county is the agency, unless a region is given the
				  responsibility as part of a regional agreement.
(b) "Board" means the California Integrated
				  Waste Management Board.
(c)
				  "Disaster" means a natural catastrophe such an an earthquake, fire, flood,
				  landslide, or volcanic eruption, or, regardless of cause, any explosion, fire,
				  or flood.
(d) "Disaster Debris"
				  means nonhazardous solid waste caused by or directly related to a
				  disaster.
(e) "Diversion" means the
				  directing of solid waste from disposal or transformation by means of recycling,
				  reuse, or composting.
(f)
				  "Emergency Waiver of Standards" means the document signifying approval by an
				  enforcement agency which allows an operator, who holds a valid solid waste
				  facilities permit, the ability to deviate from specified state minimum solid
				  waste standards or terms or conditions of a solid waste facilities permit
				  issued pursuant to this Division. The waiver applies to the origin of waste;
				  the rate of inflow for storage, transfer, or disposal of waste; the type and
				  moisture content of solid waste; the hours of facility operation; and the
				  storage time before the transfer or disposal of wastes, at a solid waste
				  facility. This includes the establishment of a locally-approved temporary
				  transfer or processing site, if authorized by the enforcement agency.
(g) "Enforcement Agency" means the agency
				  designated pursuant to the requirements set forth in Public Resources Code,
				  sections
				  43200
				  through
				  43221,
				  or the Executive Director of the Board in the event that the enforcement agency
				  (EA) is incapable of responding due to the nature of the emergency.
(h) "Extent Feasible" is evidenced by the use
				  of maximum efforts to recycle, reuse, or otherwise divert from disposal as much
				  of the debris and other nonhazardous waste received by the solid waste facility
				  as possible, as determined by the operator.
(i) "Jurisdiction of Origin" means the
				  incorporated city or the unincorporated area of the country where the waste
				  originated.
(j) "Local Emergency"
				  means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme
				  peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a
				  county, city and county, or city, as described in Government Code section
				  8558(c),
				  which conditions are likely to be beyond the control of the services,
				  personnel, equipment, and facilities of that political subdivision and require
				  the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, as stated in the
				  proclamation by the governing body of a county, city and county, or city, or by
				  an official so designated by ordinance adopted by such governing body to issue
				  such proclamation.
(k) "State of
				  Emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of
				  extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state, as
				  described in Government Code section
				  8558(b),
				  which conditions, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond
				  the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single
				  county, city and county, or city, and require the combined forces of a mutual
				  aid region or regions to combat, as stated in a proclamation by the
				  Governor.
1. New
					 section filed 8-21-96; operative 9-20-96 (Register 96, No.
					 34).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
						40502
						and
						43035,
						Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections
						40002,
						43020,
						43021
						and
						43035,
						Public Resources Code.