Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

There is in the California Environmental Protection Agency the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery shall be administered under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Resources Recycling and Recov…

(a) (1) Except as otherwise specified by statute, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery succeeds to and is vested with all of the authority, duties, powers, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction of the former California Integrated Waste Management Board. (2) E…

The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery may expend the money in any appropriation or in any special fund in the State Treasury made available by law for the administration of the statutes the administration of which is committed to the department, or for the use, suppo…

(a) The Office of Environmental Justice and Tribal Relations is hereby established within the department. (b) Duties of the office shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) Ensuring that the department’s programs effectively address the needs of disadvantag…

(a) On or before July 1, 1992, each county shall prepare and adopt for the unincorporated area a county source reduction and recycling element which includes all of the components specified in this chapter and which complies with the requirements specified in Chapter 6 (commencin…

The county source reduction and recycling element shall set forth a program for management of solid waste generated with the unincorporated area of the county, consistent with the waste management hierarchy provided in Section 40051. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

The county source reduction and recycling element shall place primary emphasis on implementation of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting programs while identifying the amount of landfill and transformation capacity that will be needed for solid waste which can…

Each county source reduction and recycling element shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following components for solid waste generated in the jurisdiction of the plan: (a) A waste characterization component. (b) A source reduction component. (c) A recycling component.…

(a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. (b) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) Disadvantaged and low-income communities are disproportionately impacted by the human…

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply: (a) “Advisory board” means the producer responsibility advisory board established pursuant to Section 42070. (b) “Bulk or large format packaging” means packaging for a large amount of a product in a large packaging, t…

(a) With respect only to solid waste disposed of in this state, a person shall not dispose of solid waste, cause solid waste to be disposed of, arrange for the disposal of solid waste, transport solid waste for purposes of disposal, or accept solid waste for disposal, except at a…

Any person who proposes to become an operator of a solid waste facility shall file with the enforcement agency having jurisdiction over the facility, or the board if there is no designated and certified enforcement agency, an application for a solid waste facilities permit at lea…

(a) (1) No person shall operate a solid waste facility without a solid waste facilities permit if that facility is required to have a permit pursuant to this division. (2) The prohibition specified in paragraph (1) includes, but is not limited to, the operation of a solid waste f…

When the operator of the disposal site is not the disposal site owner, the disposal site operator’s application for a solid waste facilities permit shall contain any information that the enforcement agency or the board may require regarding the disposal site owner’s interest in t…

(a) An operator of a solid waste facility shall not make a significant change in the design or operation of the solid waste facility that is not authorized by the existing permit, unless the change is approved by the enforcement agency, the change conforms with this division and …

(a) Any owner or operator of a solid waste facility who plans to encumber, sell, transfer, or convey the ownership or operations of a solid waste facility or disposal site to a new owner or operator, shall notify the enforcement agency and the board, 45 days prior to the date of …

(a) Each report or application filed under this article shall be submitted under oath or under penalty of perjury. (b) Each report, notice, or application filed under this article shall be submitted on a form approved by the board. (c) Each application required to be filed under …

The enforcement agency shall not issue or revise a solid waste facilities permit unless it has, at least 65 days in advance, provided the board and the applicant with a copy of the proposed permit, which shall contain the terms and conditions the enforcement agency proposes to es…

(a) A decision to issue or not issue the permit shall be made by the enforcement agency within 120 days from the date that the application is deemed complete pursuant to Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 65920) of Division 1 of Title 7 of the Government Code, unless waived by …

(a) (1) The board shall, in writing, concur or object to the issuance, modification, or revision of any solid waste facilities permit within 60 days from the date of the board’s receipt of any proposed solid waste facilities permit submitted under Section 44007 after consideratio…

The enforcement agency shall issue the permit only if it finds that the proposed solid waste facilities permit is consistent with the standards adopted by the board. (Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.)

(a) When issuing or revising a solid waste facilities permit, the enforcement agency shall ensure that primary consideration is given to protecting public health and safety and preventing environmental damage, and that the long-term protection of the environment is the guiding cr…

(a) Upon compliance with Sections 44007, 44008, and 44009, and after any necessary hearing, the local enforcement agency shall issue, modify, or revise a solid waste facilities permit if the board has concurred in that issuance, modification, or revision of the permit pursuant to…

A solid waste facilities permit issued or revised under this chapter shall be reviewed and, if necessary, revised at least once every five years. (Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 448, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2005.)

(a) The enforcement agency may, in accordance with Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 44300), suspend or revoke the permit of any solid waste facility designed to convert solid waste from offsite sources into energy or synthetic fuels if the facility utilizes recyclable materials…

The enforcement agency shall include, in the permit of any solid waste facility designed to convert solid waste into energy or synthetic fuels, a provision which requires the use of operating procedures at the facility to prevent hazardous waste from entering the conversion proce…

The board shall establish, by regulation, a program to be implemented by the board and by local enforcement agencies that provides for the expedited review of permits issued pursuant to this article. The program shall be designed to reduce unnecessary delay in the issuance of the…

(a) For purposes of this section, all of the following shall apply: (1) “Agricultural byproduct material” has the same meaning as defined in paragraph (4.5) of subdivision (a) of Section 17852 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations. (2) “Agricultural facility” means an…

A lease or prospecting permit under this chapter shall be issued only to and held by: (a) Persons or associations of persons who are citizens of the United States or who have declared their intention of becoming such, or who are citizens of any country, dependency, colony, or pro…

Any interest held in violation of this chapter shall be forfeited to the State by appropriate proceedings for that purpose brought by the State in the superior court for the county in which the property or some part thereof is located, except that any ownership or interest forbid…

The commission, in issuing any lease under this chapter, may reserve to the State the right to lease, sell, or otherwise dispose of the surface of the lands embraced within the lease, in so far as the surface is not required by the lessee. If such a reservation is to be made, how…

(a) A lease or permit issued under this chapter may be assigned, transferred, or sublet as to all or any part of the leased or permitted lands, and as to either a divided or undivided interest therein, or as to any separate and distinct zone or geological horizon or portion there…

Notwithstanding any provisions of this code to the contrary, a lessee may at any time make and file with the commission a written quitclaim or relinquishment of all rights under any lease or of any portion thereof comprising a 10-acre parcel or multiple thereof in a compact form,…

The commission shall reserve and may exercise the authority to cancel any prospecting permit or lease upon which a commercially valuable deposit of minerals or geothermal resources other than oil or gas has not been discovered or upon which oil or gas has not been discovered in p…

Any permit or lease under this chapter shall reserve to the commission the right to allow, upon such terms as the commission may determine to be just, the joint or several use of such easements or rights of way, including easements in tunnels, upon, through, or in the lands lease…

The commission, in the name of the State, may purchase or receive by donation or lease any right of way or easement in real property, or any real property in fee simple, necessary or proper for sites for drilling operations, storage of oil, dehydration plants, absorption plants, …

The commission, if it deems such action for the best interests of the state, may condemn, acquire, and possess in the name of the state any right-of-way or easement, including surface rights, for any operation authorized or contemplated under this chapter, that may be necessary f…

Any interests in lands, or lands in fee simple, acquired by the commission by purchase, donation, lease, condemnation, or otherwise, may be made available to any lessee of the State for the purposes contained in this chapter and upon such terms and conditions as may be determined…

The provisions of this chapter authorizing the commission to acquire interests in real property include the acquisition of structures and improvements situated on lands sold by the State subject to the reservations provided herein. Such structures and improvements shall be acquir…

The commission may, prior to the receipt of any bid for a lease under this chapter, withdraw any offer to receive bids therefor, and it may reject all bids therefor filed pursuant to invitation of the commission. At any time before the awarding of a lease thereon, all or any port…

Whenever by the terms of this chapter the commission may grant a lease of State lands, the commission may make and execute an easement of surface or subsurface rights, or both, in lieu thereof and upon the same terms and conditions and subject to the same limitations and prohibit…

For the purpose of this chapter, the commission may enter into agreements with any person, association of persons, corporation, city, or county, the United States or any agency thereof, or any of them, claiming the oil and gas in lands adversely to the State of California, which …

The commission, in the name of the people of the State, may bring action to determine the title to oil and gas in land against persons, associations of persons, and corporations claiming the oil and gas adversely and to recover damages for oil and gas removed therefrom. Any perso…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the commission may negotiate and enter into agreements for compensation for drainage or oil and gas leases on state-owned lands, other than those not available for lease pursuant to Section 6871.1 and that are descri…

Whenever the commission exercises a right to take oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons in kind pursuant to any lease the commission shall make and enter into contracts or agreements for the disposition and sale of such oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons only with the highest responsible …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 6815.1, the commission may take any oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons taken in kind by it, pursuant to any lease or agreement, and exchange it, by competitive bidding, for refined products which shall be allocated to state agencies and to other public ag…