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Bill (AB) 2588 (Connelly), the Air Toxics "Hot
Spots" Information and Assessment Act, requires air pollution
control and air quality management districts (districts) to
prioritize facilities to determine which facilities must perform a
health risk assessment. These facilities, for purposes of risk
assessment, are ranked into high, intermediate, and low priority
categories. Each district is responsible for establishing the prioritization score
threshold at which facilities are required to prepare a
health risk assessment. In establishing priorities, the
districts are to consider the potency, toxicity, quantity, and volume
of hazardous materials released from the facility,
the proximity of the facility to potential receptors, and any other
factors that the district determines may indicate
that the facility may pose a significant risk. |
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order to assist the districts with this requirement, the California Air
Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) Toxics Committee, in
cooperation with the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
and the Air Resources Board (ARB), developed the Air Toxics
"Hot Spots" Program, Facility Prioritization Guidelines (July 1990).
The purpose of the guideline is to provide districts
with suggested procedures for prioritizing facilities.
However, districts may develop and use prioritization
methods which differ from the CAPCOA guidelines. |
| You
may download a copy of the Facility
Prioritization Guidelines in Acrobat format
(3.9MB). |
| Additionally,
a hardcopy of these guidelines can be obtained by contacting, either by
email or by phone, Linda Keifer of the ARB
at (916) 323-4327 or Stew Wilson, CAPCOA,
at (916) 676-4323. |
This page last reviewed
February 5, 2008
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