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C I TY OF COl_TOtV <br />I ntEsroff ice M@mora►MCJLAM <br />TO: Jaime Aguilera DATE: 25 September 1990 <br />Director of Community Development <br />Planning Staff <br />Community Development Department <br />FROM: Robert D. Dalquest, Assistant Planner <br />Community Development Department <br />SUBJECT: Summary of the County Hazardous Waste Management Plan <br />I.A. INTRODUCTION <br />Proper hazardous waste management constitutes one of the <br />State's major environmental concerns. For this reason. a <br />Comprehensive Plan is necessary to identify and promote <br />programs for the reduction of hazardous waste and the safe <br />manaaement of wastes that remain after treatment or recy- <br />cling. <br />San Bernardino County generates about 65,000 tons of hazard- <br />ous waste per year. This represents about five percent (5%) <br />of the wastes aenerated in the Southern California region. <br />The major categories of waste produced in the County include <br />metal containing liquids. waste oil, oily sludges, and bag - <br />house waste. Thus, a Comprehensive Plan is required in order <br />to manaae the wastes Generated in the Countv. <br />B. The Countv Hazardous Waste Management Plan tCHWMh=) <br />The CHWMP serves as the orimary piannina document for the <br />management of hazardous waste in man bernaroino County. fne <br />CHWPIP identifies the tvoes and amounts or wastes aeneratea in <br />the Countv. establishes programs for manaoina these wastes. <br />iaentifies an application review process for the siting of <br />specified hazardous waste facilities. identifies mechanisms <br />for reputing the amount of waste generated in the County, and <br />ioentifies goals and policies and actions for hazardous waste <br />management. <br />A82948 (Tanner, 1986, California Health and Safety Code 135 <br />et. seq.) authorizes counties to prepare and adopt a Countv <br />Hazardous Waste Management Plan. The San Bernardino County <br />Department of Environmental Health Services (DEHS) is the <br />primary agency responsible for preparing the CHWMP and State <br />law provides that DEHS will enforce hazardous waste regula- <br />tions in the incorporated cities as well as the unincorporat- <br />ed areas of the County. <br />1 <br />