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Date: May 20, 2005
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: May 11, 2005
Permitting and Enforcement (P&E) Committee Meeting: May 2, 2005
Summary of the Board and P&E Committee Meetings on items of possible interest
to LEAs:
- The Deputy Director presented the new "live" version of the
Inventory of Solid Waste Facilities Violating
State Minimum Standards which is now available on the internet. The
list is updated in real time as sites are added and removed. Users that
wish to see what the list looked like on previous days can use the
search function provided. Statute requires the Board to publish the
Inventory twice a year. In the past, staff presented a biannual agenda
item to the Board in order to provide this information. The "live"
inventory will replace the twice-yearly presentation of the Inventory.
- The Closed, Illegal and Abandoned Sites Unit of the Board has been
promoting public participation at the Belmont Shores Mobile Home Park in
Long Beach. The mobile home park is built over an old landfill that was
closed in the late 1950's. In the 1970's an explosion occurred in a
mobile home killing one person. The explosion was attributed to the
build-up of methane in the sewer system that was damaged by differential
settlement of the landfill. In the 1990's welding work being performed
beneath a coach caused an explosion and fire which injured workers and
caused the owners to install a monitoring and exhaust venting system in
their mobile home. On 4/21 Board staff held a very successful public
meeting with mobile home owners to discuss the investigation to date and
next steps including inspections of the site; results of the gas
monitoring investigation; and, plans to install a continuous gas
monitoring system. The installation of the continuous gas monitoring
system will occur in the later part of May/early June. CIWMB staff
continue to work with the LEA in the resolution of this issue.
- The Board concurred in one new and three revised solid waste
facilities permits.
- The Board approved the awards for the local government waste tire
cleanup grant program For FY 2004/2005 (Tire Recycling Management Fund).
Fifteen grants were recommended for funding. Two applications received
were not recommended for funding. One was withdrawn by the applicant and
the other was disqualified because it was not received in the Board's
Sacramento office by the application deadline as specified in the grant
application. Senate Bill (SB) 876 (Escutia, Statutes of 2000, Chapter
838) amended Public Resources Code (PRC) Section 42889 to require the
Board to pay the costs of cleanup, abatement, removal, or other remedial
action related to tire stockpiles throughout the state. In addition, PRC
Section 42872 provides that the Board can award grants to public
entities who act to reduce the illegal disposal of waste tires. The
Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program provides funding to
local governments for the removal, transport, and use or disposal of
waste tires from tire stockpiles or nuisance dumping in their
communities statewide.
- The Board approved, with some amendments, concepts to be funded from
the reallocation of unused FY 2004/2005 waste tire recycling management
program funds (Tire Recycling Management Fund). Some items of note
include:
- Waste Tire Issues – Border between San Diego and
Tijuana---$50,000: Annually, thousands of waste tires are washed
into the Tijuana River Valley from Mexico during winter storms.
These tires negatively impact the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park
(TJRVRP) and the International Border Water Commission, which are
both public landowners within the City of San Diego. It is estimated
that more than 4,000 waste tires are littered in this area. These
tires threaten the sensitive habitat of the Tijuana River National
Estuary west of the TJRVRP, present a public health hazard as well
as a nuisance to the local community and visitors to the region. The
City of San Diego has been actively working on tire issues along the
border. The City’s Office of Bi-National Affairs has also been
instrumental in working in solving the City’s tire problem along the
border. Staff will partner with the City of San Diego’s LEA to
expand outreach to both sides of the border. The LEA and the Office
of Bi-National Affairs will conduct outreach and training for
stakeholders (Tijuana and San Diego); the outreach and training will
occur in San Diego. The goal will be for the LEA (and the Office of
Bi-National Affairs) to offer training sessions for stakeholder
groups such as industry, academia, and government officials. The
training will be on all elements related to tire management:
enforcement, remediation, fire, vectors, transportation, hauling,
and marketing opportunities. The Board also approved a direct grant
to the City of San Diego for $41,575: The direct grant to the City
of San Diego’s Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency will address the
clean up of these illegal waste tires in this area.
- Sukut Construction, Inc. Long-Term Remediation Project (Tracy
Cleanup)--$3,703,734.26: The approved this additional amount be
applied to the Tracy cleanup for FY 2004/2005. The long-term
remediation project contract (IWM-C2017) was awarded to Sukut
Construction for $11,565,154. The following dollar amounts have been
allocated for this contract: FY 2002/2003 $3 million, FY 2003/2004
$4 million, FY 2003/2004 (from the reallocation item) $1,865,154,
and FY 2004/2005 $2.7 million. The estimated cost to complete the
remediation of the Tracy tire fire site is $5 million. The Board had
allocated the $5 million, $4 million for FY 2005/2006 and $1 million
for FY 2006/2007 for long term remediation as part of the current
Five-Year Plan for the Tire Program. Staff is anticipating that the
remediation of the Tracy site could be completed at the end of FY
2005/2006. The Board approved that these reallocated funds from FY
2004/2005 be substituted for the funding that would have been
provided in FYs 2005/2006 and 2006/2007. The Board directed staff to
complete the cleanup of the Tracy site by the end of 2005.
- Subsequent to the approval of the Conversion Technology (CT) Report
to Legislature at the March 2005 meeting, the Board received a
considerable amount of stakeholder input about the CT Report and an
assertion that it does not meet the strict requirements of AB 2770. At
the April meeting, the Board reconsidered its previous action of the
March 2005 Board meeting regarding the CT Report to the Legislature and
directed staff to amend the report to remove anything not directly
related to Assembly Bill 2770. In addition, the Board directed staff to
prepare a separate document, also for consideration at its May meeting,
which contains information and recommendations concerning conversion
technologies that are beyond what was specifically asked for in AB 2770.
The amended report was approved at this Board meeting and will be peer
reviewed and then submitted to the Legislature through Agency. The
separate document is currently being prepared and will be available to
legislators and other interested parties upon request. Assembly Bill
2770 (Matthews, Chapter 740, Statutes of 2001) required the Board to
research, evaluate and submit a report to the Legislature on new and
emerging non-combustion thermal, chemical, and biological technologies.
- The Board approved allocation of fiscal year 2004/2005 Integrated
Waste Management Account Funds. Some of the new items approved are:
anaerobic digestion technology evaluation, University of California,
Davis and production of hydrogen from landfill gas project, Caltrans.
The existing items that will be augmented include: compost facility air
emissions testing for San Joaquin Valley, California State
University-San Diego and the compostable plastic product study,
California State University, Chico.
The next Board meeting will be on June 14-15, 2005 in Sacramento. The P&E
Committee will meet on Monday June 6, 2005 at 10 AM in Sacramento.
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/Broadcast/ or select
"Broadcasts" in the upper right corner of the electronic meeting agenda.
May 11, 2005 Board Meeting: Permitting
and Enforcement and Other Agenda Items
All agenda items may be accessed at: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Archive/IWMBMtgDocs/
1. Concurred. Consent. Consideration of a New Full Solid Waste Facilities
Permit (C&D/ Inert Debris Processing Facility) for California Concrete
Crushing and C&D Recycling, Sacramento County
2. Concurred. Consent. Consideration of a Revised Full Solid Waste
Facilities Permit (Disposal Facility) for the Otay Sanitary Landfill, San
Diego County
3. Concurred. Consent. Consideration of a Revised Full Solid Waste
Facilities Permit (Transfer/Processing Station) for the Palomar Transfer
Station, San Diego County
4. Concurred. Consent. Consideration of a Revised Full Solid Waste
Facilities Permit (Disposal Facility) for the Landers Sanitary Landfill, San
Bernardino County
6. Concurred. Consideration of the Grant Awards for the Local Government
Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program for FY 2004/2005 (Tire Recycling Management
Fund)
14. Concurred. Consideration of the Conversion Technology Report to the
Legislature and a Recommendation Document
24. Concurred. Consideration of Allocation of Fiscal Year 2004/2005
Integrated Waste Management Account Funds
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
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