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Hazardous Waste Master Plan

Sacramento County General Plan
Hazardous Waste Master Plan

Section titled “Sacramento County General Plan Hazardous Waste Master Plan”

Adopted January 24, 1989
Incorporated into the General Plan on May 13, 1992
This document is maintained by the Sacramento County Environmental Management Department.

Purpose

Section titled “Purpose”

This Plan was prepared to fulfill the requirements of Assembly Bill 2948 (AB 2948), also known as the Tanner Bill. This legislation provided funding and an opportunity for each county in California to prepare a County Hazardous Waste Management Plan (CHWMP, or Plan).

The California Land Disposal Restriction Program served as the driving force to explore alternative methods of handling hazardous wastes. The Land Disposal Restriction Program was initiated in December, 1986 when the State adopted regulations and a timeline that would phase out the disposal of untreated hazardous wastes in California by May 1990.

The purpose of the Plan is to:

  1. Identify current hazardous waste streams, to estimate future waste streams, and then to determine future needs for facilities to manage hazardous waste generated in the County.
  2. Develop and implement a process, including siting criteria, for local review of proposed off-site hazardous waste facilities.
  3. Create a consistent hazardous waste management system which applies to Sacramento County and the cities of Folsom, Galt, Isleton, and Sacramento.
  4. Require efforts to reduce the amount and toxicity of hazardous waste to the maximum extent technically and economically feasible.
  5. Provide the public, industry, and local government with the information needed to take steps to minimize hazardous waste generation; and recycle, treat, and otherwise manage hazardous waste generated in Sacramento County.
  6. Set waste reduction goals that can be used to monitor the success of this Plan.

While the Plan identifies general geographic locations where facilities are unsuitable, the Plan does not provide specific facility sites. Facility siting proposals will be subject to the following assessments.

  1. Consistency with the Plan.
  2. Site specific analysis.
  3. Preparation of a site specific environmental document.

Download

Section titled “Download”

Download the Hazardous Waste Master Plan. This is an archived PDF document.