Jim Simpson
Manager
(209) 525-6753

The Environmental Resources Department provides a hazardous materials program as follows:

• Implements Risk Management and Prevention laws to minimize chemical releases in the community.
• Maintains hazardous materials response team to assist police and fire agencies during transportation and industrial accidents involving chemical spills.
• Prepares and implements the county's Area Plan for emergency response to chemical spills in the community.
• Inspects facilities impacted by the State Aboveground Storage Tank
• Oversees site investigation for soil and ground water contamination and clean-up.
• Inspects, permits, monitors, and implements the Underground Storage Tank Program.
• Inspects hazardous waste generators.
• Reviews procedures for storage, treatment and disposal of hazardous wastes.
• Oversees the investigation and remediation of properties contaminated by Methamphetamine Manufacture.
• Prepares and implements the County's Hazardous Waste Management Plan.
• Develops and implements the Household Hazardous Waste collection program.
• Inspects medical facilities to ensure compliance with state medical waste management laws.
• Implements hazardous materials disclosure laws (business plan programs) to ensure access to information about chemicals handled by businesses.
• Promotes the recovery of obsolete electronic equipment (E-Waste) through a free electronics recycling program for consumers.
• Hazardous Materials Fees:
  ----------Please Select a Type of Fee---------- Underground Storage Tank Program Medical Waste Program Hazardous Materials Disclosure Program Tiered Permitting Program Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generator Program Miscellaneous Fees

Questions or comments about this site may be sent to JimSimpson@EnvRes.org