California Code
PART 2 - HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCE ACCOUNT
CHAPTER 5 - Cleanup of Hazardous Substance Releases

ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions

Section 78850. - 78850. The Governor is responsible for the coordination of all...

Section 78855. - 78855. (a) For response actions taken pursuant to the federal...

Section 78860. - 78860. No response actions taken pursuant to this part by...

ARTICLE 2 - Rules for Specified Circumstances

Section 78870. - 78870. Whenever the director determines that there may be an...

Section 78875. - 78875. (a) The department shall expend moneys available in the...

Section 78880. - 78880. Any removal or remedial action taken or contracted by...

Section 78885. - 78885. (a) The department may prequalify bidders for remedial or...

ARTICLE 2.5 - Department Obligations

Section 78890. - 78890. For contracts for the cleanup of hazardous substances released...

Section 78895. - 78895. For cleanups of hazardous substances released into the environment...

ARTICLE 3 - Referral of Site to Department by State or Regional Board

Section 78900. - 78900. The state board or a regional board that has...

Section 78905. - 78905. If a hazardous substance release site is referred to...

Section 78910. - 78910. (a) If a hazardous substance release site is referred...

ARTICLE 4 - Public Participation

Section 78925. - 78925. With regard to sites listed pursuant to Article 5...

Section 78930. - 78930. (a) The department or the regional board, as appropriate,...

Section 78935. - 78935. The department or regional board shall advise local environmental...

ARTICLE 5 - Community Advisory Groups

Section 78950. - 78950. (a) At each site, a community advisory group may...

Section 78955. - 78955. To the extent possible, the composition of each community...

Section 78960. - 78960. The department or regional board shall regularly communicate, and...

Section 78965. - 78965. The following entities may participate in community advisory group...

Section 78970. - 78970. (a) The existence of a community advisory group shall...

Section 78975. - 78975. A community advisory group established pursuant to Section 78950...

ARTICLE 6 - Oversight and Review of Responsible Party Actions

Section 79000. - 79000. The department and the state board concurrently shall establish...

Section 79005. - 79005. (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section...

ARTICLE 7 - Orders to Potentially Responsible Parties

Section 79020. - 79020. In exercising its authority at a hazardous substance release...

Section 79025. - 79025. The department shall schedule a meeting pursuant to Section...

Section 79030. - 79030. (a) A person issued an order pursuant to Section...

Section 79035. - 79035. Any determination made by the department regarding the largest...

ARTICLE 8 - Expenditures

Section 79055. - 79055. (a) Except as provided in Sections 79060 and 79065,...

Section 79060. - 79060. Section 79055 does not apply, and money from the...

Section 79065. - 79065. (a) Notwithstanding Section 79055, the department may expend funds,...

Section 79070. - 79070. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), the department...

Section 79075. - 79075. The department may not expend funds from the state...

ARTICLE 9 - Preliminary Endangerment Assessment

Section 79100. - 79100. (a) The department shall not agree to oversee the...

Section 79105. - 79105. (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c),...

ARTICLE 10 - Initiation of Removal or Remedial Actions

Section 79130. - 79130. (a) The director may initiate removal or remedial action...

Section 79135. - 79135. (a) At least 30 days before initiating removal or...

ARTICLE 10.5 - Local Government Removal or Remedial Actions

Section 79160. - 79160. A city or county may initiate a removal or...

Section 79165. - 79165. If the director approves the request of the city...

Section 79170. - 79170. Upon reimbursing a city or county for the costs...

Section 79175. - 79175. (a) In order for a city or county to...

ARTICLE 11 - Financial Assurances

Section 79180. - 79180. The department shall require a responsible party who is...

Section 79182. - 79182. (a) When submitting a feasibility study, a responsible party...

Section 79184. - 79184. (a) If the source of the release is regulated...

Section 79186. - 79186. A responsible party may satisfy the requirements of this...

Section 79188. - 79188. For sites for which sole jurisdiction has been granted...

Section 79190. - 79190. The department’s duties to implement this article are contingent...

ARTICLE 12 - Planning

Section 79195. - 79195. Except as provided in Sections 79225 and 79230, the...

Section 79200. - 79200. (a) A potentially responsible party may request the department...

Section 79205. - 79205. All remedial action plans prepared or approved pursuant to...

Section 79210. - 79210. A remedial action plan prepared pursuant to this article...

Section 79215. - 79215. (a) Before adopting a final remedial action plan, the...

Section 79220. - 79220. (a) (1) A potentially responsible party named in the...

Section 79225. - 79225. (a) This article does not require the department or...

Section 79230. - 79230. The department may waive the requirement that a remedial...

Section 79235. - 79235. For purposes of this article, the cost of a...

Section 79240. - 79240. Article 2 (commencing with Section 13320), Article 3 (commencing...

ARTICLE 13 - Standards

Section 79260. - 79260. Any response action taken or approved pursuant to this...

Section 79265. - 79265. (a) Any health or ecological risk assessment prepared in...

Section 79270. - 79270. If currently available scientific data are insufficient to determine...

Section 79275. - 79275. (a) The exposure assessment of any risk assessment prepared...

ARTICLE 14 - Onsite Hazardous Waste Facility for Response Action

Section 79290. - 79290. To the extent consistent with the federal Resource Conservation...

Section 79295. - 79295. (a) The department may enforce in the court for...

ARTICLE 15 - Operation and Maintenance

Section 79310. - 79310. For purposes of this article, “small business” is a...

Section 79315. - 79315. Except as provided in subdivision (a) of Section 79325,...

Section 79320. - 79320. (a) For purposes of Section 79315, the responsible party...

Section 79325. - 79325. (a) The department or the regional board shall waive...

Section 79330. - 79330. On or before January 15, 2001, the department shall...

ARTICLE 16 - Illegal Drug Lab Cleanup

Section 79350. - 79350. (a) The department may expend funds appropriated from the...

Section 79355. - 79355. A state or local law enforcement officer or investigator...

Section 79360. - 79360. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon receipt of...

Section 79365. - 79365. The department shall, as soon as the information is...

Section 79370. - 79370. (a) For purposes of Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section...

Section 79375. - 79375. The department may adopt regulations to implement this article...

Section 79380. - 79380. (a) The department shall develop sampling and analytical methods...

Section 79385. - 79385. The responsibilities assigned to the department by this article...

ARTICLE 17 - Judicial Review of Response Actions

Section 79400. - 79400. (a) In any judicial action under this part, judicial...