California Administrative Code

“Sludge” includes the accumulated solids and/or semisolids deposited from wastewaters or other fluids.

“Operator” means the person legally responsible for the operation of a waste tire facility or the owner if there is no operator.

“Bulky Waste” includes large items of solid waste such as appliances, furniture, large auto parts, trees, branches, stumps and other oversize wastes whose large size precludes or complicates their handling by normal collection, processing or disposal methods.

If the hole is open below a shoe, a cement plug shall extend from at least 50 feet below to at least 50 feet above the shoe. If the hole cannot be cleaned out to 50 feet below the shoe, a 100-foot cement plug shall be placed as deep as possible.

For the purpose of PRC section 42812, “Substantial Change” means any change that may cause a significant effect on the environment. Significant effect on the environment shall have the same meaning as provided in the State California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. T…

“Used Tire Dealer” means a business, operating under the terms and conditions of a local use permit, business license or other required local approval, which is storing used tires in accordance with PRC section 42806.5, and for which its primary purpose is to sell used tires for …

“Indoor or Indoors” means an accumulation of waste tires or waste tire equivalents within any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use of occupancy.

“Exempt or Excluded” means a waste tire facility storing a total of 500 or more waste tires, as authorized by Public Resources Code sections 42823.5(a) or 42831, or as specified in section 18420(a) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, or meets the requirements set f…

“Waste Tire Facility” means a waste tire facility as that term is defined by Public Resources Code section 42808 and includes exempt or excluded facilities, minor waste tire facilities, major waste tire facilities, and facilities where less than 500 waste tires are or will be sto…

(a) Cement Plugs. In general, cement plugs will be placed across specified intervals to protect oil and gas zones, to prevent degradation of usable waters, to protect surface conditions, and for public health and safety purposes. Cement may be mixed with or replaced by other subs…

The operator of any well drilled, redrilled, deepened, or reworked shall keep, or cause to be kept, an accurate record of each operation on each well including, but not limited to, the following, when applicable: (a) Log and history showing chronologically the following data: (1)…

(a) The following requirements apply, at minimum and subject to augmentation by the Division as the Division deems appropriate on a project-specific basis, to ensure that wells within the area of review will not be a potential conduit for fluid migration outside the approved gas …

(a) The operator shall, at a minimum, conduct the following mechanical integrity testing on each gas storage well and every other well that penetrates the gas storage reservoir of the operator's underground gas storage project, with the exception of wells that have been plugged a…

After the effective date of the county solid waste management plan required by Section 66780 of the Government Code, solid waste storage and removal shall be in conformance with said plan.

(a) Operating Criteria. All waste tire monofills shall comply with the operating criteria set forth in Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Division 2, Chapter 3, Subchapter 4, commencing with Section 20510, except for the following: (1) Section 20680. Daily Cover (2) Sectio…

(a) Each operator of a waste tire monofill facility must file with the EA a Report of Disposal Site Information (RDSI) as required in Title 27, California Code of Regulations, Sections 21590 & 21600. (b) In addition to the RDSI requirements set forth in Title 27, California Code …

(a) This Article sets forth permitting requirements and minimum operating standards for operations that handle only nonhazardous petroleum contaminated soil, as specified. This Article is not applicable to Class II or III landfills that handle other waste types in addition to con…

For the purposes of this Article: (a) “Air District” means Air Pollution Control District or Air Quality Management District. (b) “Contaminated Soil” means soil that: (1) contains designated or nonhazardous concentrations, as set forth in Title 23, Chapter 15, Article 1, section …

(a) A waste tire facility, including a permitted facility and a facility excluded or exempt from permitting requirements, that stores a total of 500 or more waste tires, or a solid waste facility that stores a total of 500 or more waste tires, shall comply with the technical and …

(a) Signs -- For waste tire facilities and solid waste facilities open to the public a sign shall be posted at the facility entrance stating the name of the operator, operating hours, and site rules. (b) Attendant -- An attendant shall be present when the waste tire facility or s…

(a) Waste tires may not be landfilled in a solid waste disposal facility which is permitted pursuant to Chapter 3 of Part 4 of the Public Resources Code, commencing with section 44001, unless they are permanently reduced in volume prior to disposal by shredding, or other methods …

(a) Waste tires stored indoors shall be stored in the manner prescribed in the subsections below, and pursuant to the California Fire Code, Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations, sections 3201.1 through 3210.1, 3403.1 through 3403.4 and 3409.1, which are hereby incorpora…

(a) A person asserting that material meets the definition of tire derived product as set forth in Public Resources Code section 42805.7 shall provide, on request of a Department representative, documentation that: (1) The material was acquired through a purchase from a separate a…

All contaminated soil disposal facilities, except as otherwise provided in section 17362.1, shall obtain a Standardized Contaminated Soil Solid Waste Facilities Permit, as set forth in form CIWMB 90 “Contaminated Soil Standardized Solid Waste Facilities Permit” (new 8/95), which …

The enforcement agency shall include in a Standardized Contaminated Soil Solid Waste Facilities Permit only those terms and conditions, and no others, contained in form CIWMB 90 “Contaminated Soil Standardized Solid Waste Facilities Permit” (rev. 12/96), which is incorporated her…

Contaminated soil operations and facilities shall be designed and constructed in such a manner as to ensure that the operations and facilities comply with the operational requirements set forth in this Article. A copy of the design of the contaminated soil disposal facility is re…

(a) All activities shall be conducted in a manner that minimizes litter, nuisances, dust, noise impacts, or other public health and safety and environmental hazards. (b) Unauthorized human or animal access to the operation or facility shall be prevented. (c) Traffic flow into, on…

(a) This Article sets forth permitting requirements and minimum operating standards for those hazardous waste disposal facilities which hold a valid Hazardous Waste Facility Permit from the Department of Toxic Substances Control and codispose nonhazardous, nonputrescible, industr…

For the purposes of this Article: (a) “Air District” means Air Pollution Control District or Air Quality Management District. (b) “Board” means the California Integrated Waste Management Board. (c) “Codisposal” means the final deposition of nonhazardous, nonputrescible, industria…

(a) All hazardous waste disposal facilities codisposing nonhazardous, nonputrescible, industrial solid waste shall comply with the Registration Permit requirements set forth in Title 14, Division 7, Chapter 5.0, Article 3.0 of the California Code of Regulations (commencing with s…

(a) The design of a new nonhazardous ash transfer/processing operation or disposal/monofill facility shall utilize expert advice, as appropriate, from persons competent in engineering, architecture, landscape design, traffic engineering, air quality control, and design of structu…

Each operator of a nonhazardous ash transfer/processing operation or disposal/monofill facility shall meet the following requirements: (a) All activities at the operation or facility shall be conducted in a manner that minimizes nuisances, noise impacts, or other public health, s…

All medium volume CDI debris processing facilities subject to this Article shall comply with the Registration Permit tier requirements set forth in CCR, Title 14, Division 7, Chapter 5.0, Article 3.0, commencing at section 18100 et seq. (a) The amount of residual in the C&D debri…

They shall apply to any and all oil or gas well operations conducted from locations within the offshore territorial boundaries and inland bays of the State of California, and where in conflict, the existing regulations shall supersede any and all previous rules, regulations, and …

The Supervisor at appropriate intervals, or as the need arises, may review and issue special regulations or change present regulations, and such special regulations or changes shall prevail against general regulations if in conflict therewith. Public hearings on such special issu…

Drugs, cosmetics, foods, beverages, hazardous wastes, poisons, medical wastes, syringes, needles, pesticides and other materials capable of causing public health or safety problems shall not be salvaged at operations or facilities unless approved by the local health agency and th…

Each operation and facility shall be conducted and maintained to prevent the creation of a nuisance. Compliance with specific provisions regarding nuisance control in a local land use approval, such as a conditional use permit or CEQA mitigation measures, shall be considered comp…

Each operation or facility shall meet the following requirements: (a) scavenging shall be prohibited; (b) salvaging of materials, such as metal, paper, glass and cardboard is permitted as an integral part of the operation, subject to conditions established by the EA, the local la…

(a) For operations or facilities not open to the public, each point of access from a public road shall be posted with an easily visible sign indicating the operation or facility name and location of nearest public operation or facility. (b) If the operation or facility is open to…

(a) The operator of an attended operation or facility shall implement a loadchecking program to prevent the acceptance of waste which is prohibited by this Article. This program must include at a minimum: (1) the number of random loadchecks to be performed; (2) a location for the…

During the performance of proposed operations, a copy of a well's tour reports shall be maintained at the wellsite. All pertinent well records shall be made available to the Division inspector upon request.

A fire fighting system shall be installed and maintained in an operating condition in accordance with volumes 6 and 7 of the National Fire Codes, 1973, as appropriate, incorporated here by reference. A diagram of the fire fighting system, showing the location of all equipment, sh…

(a) The operator of one or more wells that have not been properly plugged and abandoned, according to the Division's records, shall submit a Cost Estimate Report to the Division according to the due dates specified in section 1753.1. (b) The Cost Estimate Report shall include all…

(a) Operators shall submit a Cost Estimate Report as follows: (1) By no later than January 1, 2025: for all operators who were assessed, in accordance with Public Resources Code sections 3402 and 3403, based upon production of less than 3.5 total barrel equivalent per day per wel…

(a) For purposes of the annual submission of a sensitive receptor inventory and a sensitive receptor map, due annually by July 1, that is up-to-date with information no more than 90 days old, as required under Public Resources Code section 3285, an operator shall submit all of th…

(a) A sensitive receptor inventory submitted by an operator to satisfy the requirements of this article shall conform to the following content specifications. (1) The scope of the inventory shall encompass the following: (A) If the inventory is submitted in connection with a noti…

(a) Operators shall prepare a pipeline management plan for all pipelines, and current operators as of October 1, 2018, shall submit a copy of the plan to the Supervisor no later than October 1, 2019. The operator shall maintain an up-to-date copy and provide it to the Supervisor …

This Appendix is a non-mandatory set of guidelines provided to assist employers in complying with the requirements of this section. This Appendix neither creates additional obligations nor detracts from obligations otherwise contained in the standard. It is intended to provide ex…

(a) Any operator acquiring the right to operate a facility shall notify the local district office in writing within 30 days after finalizing the sale or transfer with the following information: (1) The facility location; (2) A unique alphanumeric tank identification number design…

§ 450.16. Change of Business or Corporate Name. [Renumbered] This database is current through 5/1/26 Register 2026, No. 18. Source: https://govt.westlaw.com/calregs/Document/I67CA42735A1E11EC8227000D3A7C4BC3?viewType=FullText&originationContext=documenttoc&transitionType=Category…