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Date: September 23, 2004
To: All Local Enforcement Agencies
This all LEA e-mail was sent
on behalf of the LEA Support Services Branch of the California Integrated Waste
Management Board (CIWMB) and Howard Levenson, Deputy Director Permitting and
Enforcement Division.
Board Meeting: September 21-22, 2004
Permitting and Enforcement (P&E) Committee Meeting: September 17, 2004
Summary of the Board and P&E Committee Meetings on items of possible interest
to LEAs:
- Ms. Rosario Marin was elected as the
new Chair of the Integrated Waste Management Board; replacing Ms. Linda
Moulton-Patterson who served for over four years as the first woman Chair of
the CIWMB. Also announced - Member
Rosalie Mulé will become chair of the Permitting and Enforcement committee
beginning next month, committee makeup will remain as is.
- The
Board heard an item on proposed updates to the procedures for conducting Board
and Committee activities. Included in the item was a clarification that
approval of an item on the consent agenda by the Board has the same force and
effect of Board approval after a presentation by staff. Therefore, unless a permit
is controversial it would be able to be on consent and would not require an
additional presentation to the Board. However, any member could still pull an item from the consent calendar
at the Board meeting. When an item is
pulled from the consent calendar, and any of the interested parties are not
present (such as the applicant, LEA, opponent), as a courtesy, that item could
be moved to be heard on the second day of the Board meeting so that the parties
are given an opportunity to be present.
- The Board concurred in the issuance of two
new solid waste facility permits, both were on the consent calendar.
- The Board approved five grants in the total
amount of $237,397 for the first quarter of fiscal year 2004/2005 for the Farm
and Ranch Solid Waste Cleanup and Abatement Grant Program. The grants will be
used to clean up two sites in Tulare Co., three sites in Lake Co., and one site
in each of Kings, Yolo and Kern Counties.
- The P&E Committee heard and directed
staff to initiate the recommendations for action on the findings of the study
of Landfill Facility Compliance which provided a comprehensive picture of
municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill environmental performance across all
environmental media (Phase I) as well as an assessment of current MSW landfill
regulatory effectiveness in controlling environmental impacts over time (Phase
II). This discussion was the result of
the Board’s direction to Permitting and Enforcement (P&E) Division staff to
review GeoSyntec’s final project report (the Task 8 Report) and recommend a
course of action that could be taken with each of the report’s
recommendations.
- The Board heard proposed changes in the
applicant eligibility and program criteria for the Waste Tire Enforcement Grant
Criteria. A Board member mentioned that they had spoken to LEAs and expressed
the wish that LEA concerns about usability of the program are addressed. The
item was postponed until the October Board meeting so that the League of Cities
could be contacted for comment on the proposed changes.
The next Board meeting will be on October 13
and 14, 2004 in Sacramento. The P&E Committee will meet on Monday October
4, 2004 at 10 AM.
The P&E Committee and Board meetings are being audio broadcast and are
available from almost any personal computer with Internet access. Go to
www.calrecycle.ca.gov and click on the far
right link under "More Resources" titled "Broadcasts & Videos" or click on
"Broadcasts" in the upper right corner of the electronic meeting agenda.
September 21-22, 2004 Board Meeting: Permitting and Enforcement and Other
Agenda Items
All agenda items may be accessed at:
http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Archive/IWMBMtgDocs/.
1. Consideration Of Election Of CIWMB
Chair
2. Consideration Of
Updates and Additional Revisions to Procedures for Conducting Board and
Committee Activities
Approval of the Updates to the Procedures
4. Consent: Consideration of a New Full Solid Waste Facilities Permit
(Transfer/Processing Station) for the Madison Materials, Inc., Orange County
(P&E Committee Item B)
Concurrence for a Full Solid Waste Facility Permit
5. Consent: Consideration of a New Solid Waste
Facilities Permit (Transfer/Processing Facility) for the Del Norte County
Transfer Station, Del Norte County (P&E Committee Item C)
Concurrence for a Full Solid Waste Facility Permit
6. Committee Consensus: Consideration of the Grant
Awards for the Farm and Ranch Solid Waste Cleanup and Abatement Grant Program
FY 2004/2005 (P&E Committee Item D)
Approval to Award Five Grants
7. Committee Only: Discussion and Request for
Direction on Recommended Follow-ups to Landfill Facility Compliance Study (FY
1999-2000 Contract No. IWM-C9047) (P&E Committee Item E)
Discussion Item
11. Consideration of Applicant Eligibility and Program
Criteria, and Evaluation Process for the Waste Tire Enforcement Grant Program
for FY 2004/2005 (Special Waste Committee Item E)
Item will be carried over to next month.
This email is not an official transcript of the Board's actions and should
be used for informational purposes only.
Thank you,
Melissa Hoover-Hartwick
LEA Support Services
(916) 341-6813
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