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arbcombo -- CAPCOA releases Draft update to the Hot Spots Public Notification Guidelines Document
Posted: 14 Sep 2016 13:25:53
The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association (CAPCOA) has released a Draft update to their Hot Spots Public Notification Guidelines document for public review and comment. This document is available on the CAPCOA website at www.capcoa.org. CAPCOA will be accepting comments until October 31, 2016. Based on comments submitted, CAPCOA may schedule workshops for further opportunities to comment. The Hot Spots Public Notification Guidelines were developed by the Toxics and Risk Managers Committee (TARMAC) of CAPCOA with assistance from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and the California Air Resources Board (ARB). The Notification Guidelines are being updated in response to revisions to OEHHA’s health risk assessment methodologies contained in the Air Toxics Hot Spots Program Risk Assessment Guidelines: Guidance Manual for the Preparation of Health Risk Assessments (February 2015). The purpose of the Hot Spots Public Notification Guidelines document is to provide California air pollution control and air quality management districts with suggested procedures to use in revising and implementing their own air toxics notification programs. District programs must meet the requirements for public notification found in Health & Safety Code 44362(b) and the Air Toxics Hot Spots Information and Assessment Act of 1987 Health and Safety Code §44344.4(c). This law established a statewide program for inventory of air toxics emissions from individual facilities as well as requirements for risk assessment and public notification. The Hot Spots Public Notification Guidelines were originally developed in 1992 and are being revised to incorporate the new health risk assessment methodologies determined by OEHHA in February 2015. The guidelines are available to those districts that choose to use them. However, there is no requirement that the districts use these specific guidelines. Furthermore, it should be recognized that any district may develop public notification program procedures other than those presented in these guidelines. It should be noted that any district that develops and utilizes its own notification program guidelines must still ensure public notification occurs for any facility with a risk above the district’s notification threshold level that is at least as stringent as those required under the AB2588 (i.e. Health and Safety Code Sections 44300-44394). Comments may be submitted by mail to: Alan Abbs, Executive Director CAPCOA 1107 Ninth Street, Suite 1005 Sacramento, CA 95814 Comments may also be submitted by email to alan@capcoa.org. California is in a drought emergency. Visit www.SaveOurH2O.org for water conservation tips. You are receiving this single arbcombo email because you are a subscriber to or have made a public comment to one or more of the following lists: ab2588, harp, rma.
