In addition to the terms defined below, other terms in this chapter shall be defined as set forth in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25110, as it may be amended, unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning. Definitions of state law provided in full below shall be amended when state law is amended.
HAZARDOUS WASTE shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25117 as follows:
(1) Except as provided in subdivision (d),
HAZARDOUS WASTE means a waste that meets any of the criteria for the identification of hazardous waste
adopted by the Department pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25141;
(2) HAZARDOUS WASTE includes, but is not limited to, RCRA hazardous waste;
(3) Unless expressly provided otherwise,
HAZARDOUS WASTE also includes extremely hazardous waste and acutely hazardous waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY. A site designed to be the terminal location or residual repository for hazardous waste.
HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY or FACILITY shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25117.1 as follows: all contiguous land and structures, other appurtenances and improvements on the land used for the treatment, transfer, storage, resource recovery, disposal or recycling of hazardous waste. A HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY may consist of one or more treatment, transfer, storage, resource recovery, disposal or recycling units for hazardous waste management, or combinations of these units.
HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY PROJECT shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25199.1(b) as follows: a project undertaken for the purpose of siting and constructing a new hazardous waste facility that will require a hazardous waste facilities permit issued pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25200, or for the purpose of significantly expanding or modifying an existing hazardous waste facility that is being used or operated under a permit issued pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code §25200, or a grant of interim status pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25200.5. Unless expressly provided otherwise, HAZARDOUS WASTE FACILITY PROJECT includes a specified hazardous waste facility project.
LAND USE DECISION shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25199.1(e)
as follows: a discretionary decision of a local agency concerning a hazardous waste facility project, including the issuance of a land use permit or a conditional use permit, the granting of a variance, the subdivision of property, and the modification of existing property lines pursuant to Cal. Gov’t Code Title 7 (commencing with § 65000).
LOCAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE or LAC shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25199.7(d), provided in part herein. The legislative body of the affected local agency shall appoint a seven-member LOCAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE to advise it in considering an application for a land use decision for a specified hazardous waste facility project. The members of the LOCAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE may be appointed at any time after the notice of intent is filed with the local agency, but shall be appointed not later than 30 days after the application for the land use decision is accepted as complete by the local agency. The local agency shall charge the project proponent a fee to cover the local agency's costs of establishing and convening the LOCAL ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE. The fee shall accompany the application for a land use decision.
RESIDUALS REPOSITORY shall have the meaning ascribed by Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25204 as follows: a hazardous waste facility, or an operational unit at a hazardous waste facility, that meets all of the following requirements:
(1) It is sited, designed, constructed, operated and maintained in accordance with all applicable federal and state regulations, including but not limited to, the regulations adopted pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25204(b);
(2) The operator holds a hazardous waste facilities permit issued by the Department;
(3) A condition imposed in the hazardous waste facilities permit authorizes the
RESIDUALS REPOSITORY to accept for disposal in or on the land only treated hazardous waste, as defined in Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25179.3(l), that has been specified as suitable for disposal in a RESIDUALS REPOSITORY pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 25204(b)(1).
(Ord. 4499, passed 8-13-07)