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Community Development Services, Environmental Management Department, recommending the Board adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 100-2017 thereby recognizing the need to collect the increased annual State Unified Program surcharges, with amounts for hazardous material storage of threshold quantities increasing from $35 to $49 and underground storage tank permits increasing from $15 to $20. State Unified Program surcharges are collected by the County on behalf of the State of California, to cover costs of the State agencies that have responsibilities under this State Unified Program.
FUNDING: State funding - 100% pass through to the State.
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DEPARTMENT RECOMMENDATION
Community Development Services, Environmental Management Department (Environmental Management), recommends the Board adopt Resolution 100-2017 authorizing Environmental Management to collect the increased annual surcharges to fund California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) departments that have State Unified Program (SUP) responsibilities. Surcharges collected by Environmental Management from regulated businesses are a pass-through to the State, and none of the funds are retained by the County.
DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
Environmental Management is authorized by the CalEPA to act as a Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA). The intent of the CUPA is to consolidate services for hazardous materials under one local agency instead of several agencies. Since the mid-1990’s, Environmental Management has been the CUPA for the County. The duties of the CUPA include:
1) Facility plan review and inspection of facilities that store hazardous materials and hazardous waste;
2) Review of construction and repairs to, and inspection of, facilities that have underground storage tanks that store hazardous materials or hazardous waste;
3) Inspection of facilities that have aboveground storage tanks that store petroleum products; and
4) On-call (twenty-four hours per day, sev...
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