Resolution 12357CITY OF ALAMEDA RESOLUTION NO. 12357
REQUESTING THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF TOXIC
SUBSTANCES CONTROL (DTSC) ACT WITHOUT
DELAY TO REVIEW AND APPROVE THE ALAMEDA
COUNTY HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN
WHEREAS, the State of California authorized and encouraged
Counties to prepare Hazardous Waste Management Plans; and,
WHEREAS, the State of California required the Department of
Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) to review and approve county
hazardous waste management plans; and,
WHEREAS, the State of California required the DTSC to review
and approve resubmitted county hazardous waste management plans
within 90 days of receipt of revised plans; and,
WHEREAS, lack of an approved hazardous waste management plan
results in a loss of local land use control and of proper
management of hazardous wastes; and,
WHEREAS, counties and cities, within the San Francisco Bay
>- Area and. DTSC Region 2 staff as well as the central Sacramento
MI
0 _ = office of the DTSC have worked together for over five years to
a: prepare approvable hazardous waste management plans including
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i-- mutually agreed time lines; and,
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WHEREAS, following resolution of all outstanding issues the
regional staff forwarded to the central DTSC office the redrafted
2 0 hazardous waste management plans of the Bay Area counties for
approval; and,
WHEREAS, the central DTSC office refused to act on resubmitted
plans, notifying all six Bay Area counties with unapproved and
resubmitted hazardous waste management plans, on September 16,
1992, that they would "no longer review or take action to approve
or disapprove county hazardous waste management plants";
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the
City of Alameda hereby requests that the DTSC act without delay to
review and approve the Alameda County Hazardous Waste Management
Plan that was submitted to the DTSC on May 10, 1992, and that the
DTSC review and approve the hazardous waste management plans
already submitted by other Bay Area counties, and that the DTSC act
to review and approve other county hazardous waste management plans
within 90 days of their submittal; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of
Alameda supports sponsors of legislation requiring 90 day review
and action by the DTSC on county hazardous waste management plans
with a proviso that DTSC nonaction results in automatic approval of
county hazardous waste management plans.
I, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution
was duly and regularly adopted and passed by the Council of the
City of Alameda in regular meeting assembled on the 15th day of
December • , 1992, by the following vote to wit:
Counciimembers Anpezzato, Arnerich, Roth and
President Withrow- 4.
NOES: None.
AYES:
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Lucas - 1.
ABSTENTIONS: None.
IN WITNESS, WHEREOF, I have hereunto set any hand and affixed the
official seal of said City this 16th day of December
1992.
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Diane B. Felsch, City Clerk
City of Alameda