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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 199-2023 amending the Certified Unified Program Agency Annual Surcharge Resolution 100-2017 and authorizing an increase to the annual surcharges on behalf of the State of California, to cover costs of the state agencies that have responsibilities under the Certified Unified Program Agency.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Environmental Management Department (EMD) recommends the Board adopt Resolution 199-2023 authorizing EMD to collect the increased annual surcharges to fund California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) departments that have State Unified Program (SUP) responsibilities. Surcharges collected by the EMD from regulated businesses are a pass-through to the state, and none of the funds are retained by the County of El Dorado (County).
EMD is authorized by the CalEPA to act as the Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA). The intent of the CUPA was to consolidate services for hazardous materials under one local agency instead of several agencies. Since the mid-1990s, EMD has been the CUPA for the County. The duties of the CUPA include:
• Facility plan review and inspection of facilities that store hazardous materials and hazardous waste; and
• review of construction and repairs to, and inspection of, facilities that have underground storage tanks that store hazardous materials or hazardous waste; and
• inspection of facilities that have aboveground storage tanks that store petroleum products; and
• on-call (twenty-four hours per day, seven days a week) emergency response to hazardous materials incidents.
The EMD CUPA also keeps records of these facilities and the hazardous materials stored to fulfill Proposition 65 notification requirements and to provide information to first responders of the hazards that they may encounter at a...
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