A district may prepare an industrywide emissions inventory and health risk assessment for facilities specified in subdivision (b) of Section 44320 and subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 44322, and shall prepare an industrywide emissions inventory for the facilities specified in subdivision (c) of Section 44322, in compliance with this part for any class of facilities that the district finds and determines meets all of the following conditions:
(a) All facilities in the class fall within one four-digit Standard Industrial Classification Code.
(b) Individual compliance with this part would impose severe economic hardships on the majority of the facilities within the class.
(c) The majority of the class is composed of small businesses.
(d) Releases from individual facilities in the class can easily and generically be characterized and calculated.
Added Stats 1987 ch 1252 § 1, operative July 1, 1988. Amended Stats 1989 ch 1254 sec 9.
Amendments:
1989 Amendment: (1) Added “subdivision (b) of Section 44320 and” after “for facilities specified in” in the introductory clause; and (2) deleted “consist primarily of a single hazardous material for which the releases from each facility” after “facilities in the class” in subd (d).
Cross References: “Health risk assessment”: H & S C § 44306.
Prioritizing and categorizing facilities for health risk assessment: H & S C § 44360.