BILL NUMBER: AB 358	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2011

   An act to amend Section 25296.30 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hazardous substances.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 358, as introduced, Smyth. Hazardous substances: underground
storage tanks.
   Existing law generally regulates the storage of hazardous
substances in underground storage tanks, including requiring
underground storage tanks that are used to store hazardous substances
to meet certain requirements. Existing law requires the State Water
Resources Control, in consultation with the former State Department
of Health Services, to develop guidelines for the investigation and
cleanup of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and other ether-based
oxygenates in groundwater, with regard to these tanks.
   This bill would update an obsolete reference and instead require
consultation with the State Department of Public Health.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 25296.30 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   25296.30.  (a) The board, in consultation with the State
Department of  Public  Health  Services  ,
shall develop guidelines for the investigation and cleanup of methyl
tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) and other ether-based oxygenates in
groundwater. The guidelines shall include procedures for determining,
to the extent practicable, whether the contamination associated with
an unauthorized release of MTBE is from the tank system prior to the
system's most recent upgrade or replacement or if the contamination
is from an unauthorized release from the current tank system.
   (b) The board, in consultation with the State Department of 
Pub   lic  Health  Services  , shall
develop appropriate cleanup standards for contamination associated
with a release of methyl tertiary-butyl ether.