Local Enforcement Agency Correspondence

Site information Request

Date: February 26, 2003

To: All Local Enforcement Agencies

This all LEA e-mail was sent on behalf of the Permitting and Inspection and LEA Support Services Branches of the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

In a previous All LEA e-mail sent on January 24, 2003, LEAs were requested to help identify where large piles of wood and C&D material were located.

As a follow up to this first request Board staff will be scheduling site visits to determine if any of the identified piles and/or other sites pose acute threats that may need to be immediately addressed. New information, gleaned from recent experience with a waste pile fire, relative to potential threats from unmanaged wood and mixed C&D piles, will be used to evaluate the sites. Board staff will be assisting LEAs in evaluating waste piles to determine the degree of potential threat and assisting LEAs in pursuing actions needed to reduce the potential threats.

In addition to this effort Board staff has been directed by the Board to extend the survey to include all sites that will fall under proposed regulations.

This second request is for information regarding all of the sites that will fall under new regulations.

Staff of the Permitting and Enforcement Division request your assistance by March 14, 2003 to identify all:

• Construction/demolition and inert debris (CHI) processing operations and facilities;
• Inert debris processing operations and facilities >10% residual;
• C&D wood debris chipping and grinding operations and facilities, and;
• Green waste wood debris chipping and grinding operations and facilities (sites may include C&D wood).

This information has been requested by CIWMB Board Members and will also help both the LEA and Board staff in the following ways:

• In permitting sites;
• In identifying sites that may need to be included in NDFEs;
• In providing assistance to LEAs in evaluating workload impacts for their EPP's, and;
• In identifying sites that may become a nuisance concern when the new regulations are implemented.

Please provide the following information via e-mail to your Permitting and Enforcement staff contact by March 14, 2003:

Identifier--Either site name or company name.

Type of operation or facility

Location--Either a street address, cross streets, or nearest landmark.

Estimated maximum tons per day received--P please convert to tons from cubic yards and provide the conversion factor used.

Responsible party--Owner of site and or site manager.

Description of site--Types of material, estimated volumes, current status relative to activity (adding to pile? processing material? inactive?).

Identified in the NDFE? Yes or No.

Is there a CUP or Special Use Permit issued to this site? Yes or No.

Jurisdiction--City of _________; Unincorporated area of  ________ County

Please reference the C&D regulations web page for assistance in determining tier threshold placement.

Following are General Conversion Factors:  

Unchipped Wood Debris: 400 lbs/cyd
Mixed C&D: 623 lbs/cyd
Inerts: 1083 lbs/cyd

Thank you,
Melissa Hoover-Hartwick
LEA Support Services
(916) 341-6813

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