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CROSS JURISDICTIONAL CHALLENGES & SOLUTIONS
Vicky Furnish, Sr. Environmental Advisor
Southern California Edison2019 CUPA Conference: M-H2
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Learning Objectives
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• The Age Old Question….
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Significant Environmental Disasters
1970’s
• DDT Ban – 1972
• Yusho, Japan PCBs – 1976
• Three Mile Island – 1979
• Love Canal - 1979
1980 – 2000’s
• Bhopal, India – 1984
• Chernobyl – 1986
• Exxon Valdez Oil Spill – 1989
• Deepwater Horizon - 2010
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Federal Environmental Law
• RCRA - 1976
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
• Generation, Transportation, Treatment, Storage, and Disposal of Hazardous Waste
• Cradle to Grave
• Federal management of hazardous and non-hazardous wastes
• CERCLA – Superfund- 1980’s
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
• Management of remediation and abandonment/non-operating sites with contamination
• EPCRA –SARA Title III – 1986 Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know
• Chemical Disclosure
• SDS
• Inventories
• Toxic Release Inventory Program
• Public knowledge and access to information on chemical uses and release at facilities.
• Improve chemical safety and protect public health and the environment.
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Federal Environmental Law
1940 –
1970’s
• Pollution
Control
• Clean
Water
Act
1950 -
1960’s
• Air
Pollution
• Clean
Air Act
1970’s
• Safe
Drinking
Water
Act
• NEPA
1970’s
• RCRA
• TSCA
1980’s
• CERCLA
• USTs
• EPCRA
1990’s
• CUPAs
• CalARP
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Where did it all start?
• Fricker Fire Incident
Anaheim, CA June 1985
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What came out of it…
Local Level
• Model Hazardous Materials Disclosure Ordinance
• Development of Fire and Environmental Health HazMat Data Collection System
• Network inventory systems into Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) System
• Operating Permits for facilities with storage of Hazardous Materials under the authority of the Fire Code
State Level
• Legislature passed law requiring businesses to disclose amounts and types of hazardous materials used and/or stored. – Hazardous Materials Business Plan.
• Required information to be provided to local government responders.
*The legislation in California requiring business plans preceded the federal legislation
(SARA) requiring business plans- EPCRA 311/312 Reporting.
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SB 1082 Calderon - 1993
• Why SB 1082?
• Duplicative inspections from multiple agencies
• Same Programs and Oversight
• Multiple Invoices, Permits, Applications
• Multiple Agencies
• Required:
• CalEPA to create a consolidated, single fee program to be administered by the local authorized agencies, “Certified Unified Program Agency” to enforcement and inspect programs related to hazardous waste generator program, hazardous materials release response plans and inventory program, California Accidental Release Prevention Program, Aboveground Tank Program and the Underground Storage Tank Program.
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CUPA Implementation Goals
• Combined Inspections - Industry driven concept
• Consistent Inspections/Enforcement
• Interagency Coordination
• Single Fee System
• Consolidated PermitAccomplishments
Enhanced and Increased interagency cooperation
Development of legislation/regulations
Informed and Involved
Increased and Consistent Enforcement
Reduction in major incidents at high risk chemical facilities
Streamlined consistency on reporting
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The Regulated CUPA Universe 2017-2018
• Regulated Businesses: 160,000
• Business Plan Facilities: 127,000
• CalARP Facilities: 2,100
• Hazardous Waste Facilities: 89,000
• Underground Storage Tank Facilities: 14,500
• Aboveground Tank Facilities: 13,000
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Consistency still provides Uniqueness
• 81 CUPAs and 25 PAs
• Local Ordinances
• Special locally required information and due dates
• Jurisdiction differences of opinion/knowledge/personnel
• Nature of industry known by the CUPA or inspector
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AB2286 - 2009
Hazardous Materials Business Plan Program
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Intent…
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And…
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• What are they?
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What we do…
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SCE’s Programs
• Facilities located throughout the Central and Southern California
• >1,000 Regulated Facilities
• Regulated by 40 various CUPAs/PAs
• Facilities with HMBP, HW Generator (Transmission & Distribution, Power Generation, Service Centers, Substation, Storage)
• Non- HW generating facilities (substations, telecom sites, support facilities)
• Remote exempted facilities
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The Obvious…
• Need to verify accuracy and completeness, updates to forms, maps, training, and plans
• On time submission in CERS for all facilities
• Different HMBP due dates in CERS for various CUPAs/Pas.
• Various jurisdictional ordinance requirements
• HW reporting thresholds
• Chemical inventory reporting threshold
• CERS Approval/review process
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SCE’s Dashboard: Agency Inspections
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Agency Inspections
• Hazardous Materials Business Plan
• Hazardous Waste
• APSA - SPCC
• UST
• CalARP
• Water Quality
• Air Quality
• Drinking Water
• Archaeology
• Biology
• Other20
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Types of Environmental
Inspections
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2018 CUPA Related Inspections by Agencies
• Anaheim Fire and Rescue: 3
• City of Vernon: 1
• Corona Fire Department: 7
• Culver City Fire Dept.: 1
• El Segundo Fire Dept.: 17
• Fresno Envir. Health: 2
• Kern Co. Envir. Health: 16
• LA County Health Hazmat: 28
• LA County Fire Dept.: 34
• Mono County Dept. of PH: 1
• Monrovia Fire Dept.: 1
• Newport Beach Fire Dept.: 2
• Orange City Fire Dept.: 1
• Orange Co. Health Care Agency: 8
• Oxnard Fire Dept.: 1
• Riverside Co. Envir. Health: 43
• San Bernardino Co. Fire Dept.: 131
• San Diego Envir. Health: 2
• Santa Barbara Co. Envir. Health: 6
• Santa Fe Springs Fire Dept.: 5
• Santa Monica Fire Dept.: 8
• Torrance Fire Dept.: 13
• Tulare County Envir. Health: 22
• Ventura City Fire Dept.: 1
• Ventura County Envir. Health: 19
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Other Types of Inspections in 2018 (Air Quality, Fire/Life/Safety, Water, Nuclear, Tires, Wildlife)
• LA County Public Works: 19
• LA RWQCB: 5
• Mojave Desert Air Quality Mgt: 7
• Orange County Fire Authority: 4
• Orange County Sanitation District: 2
• San Bernardino Land Use Services: 3
• San Bernardino Valley Water: 3
• San Joaquin Valley APCD: 5
• Sanitation District of LA: 10
• Santa Ana RWQCB: 3
• South Coast Air Quality Mgt: 17
• Ventura County APCD: 6
• Antelope Valley Air Quality Mgt: 3
• CalRecycle: 4
• Fish and Wildlife: 1
• CA Dept. of Water Resources: 1
• City of Huntington Beach PW: 2
• City of Santa Ana 1
• City of South Pasadena 9
• County of San Diego APCD: 4
• DTSC: 6
• Great Basin Unified APCD: 2
• Huntington Beach Fire Dept.: 4
• Inland Empire Utilities Agency: 3
• Kern County Fire Dept.: 1
• LA County Public Health: 3
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The Breakdown - 2018
• 375 CUPA related program agency inspections
• HMBP
• HW
• APSA
• CalARP
• UST
• 139 other inspections
• Air Quality
• Water
• Cultural Resources
• Wildlife
• Other
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CERS as an example
• How much data are we really talking about?
• What does this all mean?
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Solutions Please…
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What we did…
• Assessed, Evaluated, Strategize, Implemented a Plan, Re-evaluated
• Centralized Environmental Services Department
• Looked at CUPA organizational structure –Facility vs. Emergency Response
• Geographically deployed Environmental Specialist
• Created new structures and organizations under new model
• Consolidated teams
• Eliminated redundancies
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Survey 123 - ArcGIS
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Surveys
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ArcGIS – Live Data
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Hazardous Waste Inspections
• Create your own surveys
• Collect the data
• Download data
• Ability to analyze trends
• Identify risks, Non Conforming Conditions
• Operation Dashboards
• Photos of conditions
• Annual Report outs to key stakeholders
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Exemptions
• Take advantage of exemptions
• Unstaffed/Remote Site Exemptions
• Quantity Threshold Exemptions
• Oil Filled Electric Equipment (not contiguous to an electric facility) < 1,320 gallons
• Propane <500 gallons
• Simple asphyxiates <1,000 cu ft3
• Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxides, Non-Flammable Refrigerants, Gases in closed fire suppression systems <1,000 cu ft3
• Retail Exemptions
• Farming/Construction/Nursery Exemptions
• And there’s more….
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Opportunities for Improvement
• Develop that relationship with the CUPA
• Working with CUPA Forum Board on issues
• Insure greater consistency between CUPAs by developing Industry and CUPA guidance documents through TAGs and Working Groups
• Get Involved with Industry Stakeholder Groups
• Support Bills and Legislations
• Keeping updated single source ordinance location for industry to track
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TAGs and Issue Coordinators
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Questions…
THANK YOU!