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The Cleanup, Closure, and Financial Assurance Division is responsible for
helping to ensure that state programs are effectively implemented by:
- Reviewing, making recommendations, and approving solid waste and
tire facility closure/postclosure maintenance plans, including
determinations regarding the adequacy of financial assurances for
closure, postclosure maintenance, corrective action, and operating
liability.
- Implementing cleanup and remediation programs for illegal and
abandoned solid waste and tire disposal sites and for farm and ranch
sites where illegal disposal has occurred.
- Coordinating emergency response functions within the Board and in
coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency
(Cal/EPA) and the Office of Emergency Services (OES).
- Providing engineering technical support for the Board's climate,
change, bioenergy program, and solid waste technology responsibilities.
The division comprises two branches: the Closure and Financial
Assurances Branch and the Cleanup Branch.
The Closure and Financial Assurances Branch:
- Reviews and approves closure and postclosure maintenance plans
and postclosure land use proposals and provides technical assistance
to the Permitting and LEA Support
Division and local enforcement agencies (LEA).
- Oversees postclosure maintenance of closed sites and assists
LEAs with compliance.
- Annually, and when permits are being revised, evaluates adequacy
of financial assurances for closure, postclosure, and operating
liability for solid waste landfills.
- Provides assistance to owners/operators with financial assurance
demonstrations.
- Direct
enforcement authority for compliance with financial assurance
statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Oversees disbursements from financial assurance demonstrations
for expenses authorized and incurred pursuant to landfill closure
and postclosure maintenance plans.
- Implements the closure loan program.
The Cleanup Branch:
- Implements the Site Identification Process whereby LEAs
review closed, illegal, and abandoned sites. Investigates
closed, illegal, and abandoned solid waste disposal sites to
determine whether remediation is necessary.
- Administers the Solid Waste Cleanup Program and Farm and
Ranch Cleanup Program.
- In order to remediate illegal tire piles, initiates cleanup
action, contracts for site cleanup, and performs cleanup
monitoring and oversight.
- Provides technical guidance to LEAs and other local cleanup
agencies to remediate local tire piles.
- Coordinates emergency response functions within the Board
and with Cal/EPA and OES.
- Coordinates the Illegal Dumping Enforcement Task Force and
associated activities.
- Provides engineering technical support for the Board's
climate change, bioenergy, and solid waste technology
responsibilities, including primary lead for the areas of
landfill methane capture and landfill gas to energy.
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