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RESOLUTION NO. 2887
A RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF
THE TOWN OF TIBURON, COUNTY OF MARIN,
STATE OF CALIFORNIA REGARDING COUNTY
HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT PLANS
WHEREAS, the State of California authorized and encoul"llged counties to
prepare Hazardous Waste Management Plans, and
WHEREAS, the State of California required the Department of Toxic
Substances Control (DTSC) to review and approve county hazardous waste
management plans, and
WHEREAS, the State of California required the DTSC to review and approve
resubmitted county hazardous waste management plans within 90 days of receipt of
revised plans, and
WHEREAS, a DTSC-approved hazardous waste management plan provides
for the reduction and disposal of the State's hazardous waste, fair distribution of
hazardous waste facilities and attempts to retain local control ofIand use decisions,
and
WHEREAS, lack of an approved hazardous waste management plan results
in a loss of local land use control and of proper management of hazardous wastes,
and
WHEREAS, Counties and Cities within the San Francisco Bay Area and the
Region 2 staff, as well as the central Sacramento office, of the DTSC have worked
together for over five years to prepare approvabIe hazardous waste management
plans including mutually agreed time lines, and
WHEREAS, the central DTSC office refused to act on resubmitted plans,
notitying all six Bay Area counties with unapproved and resubmitted hazardous
waste management plans, on September 16, 1992, that they would "no longer review
or take action to approve or disapprove county hazardous waste management plans";
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Town Council of the Town
of Tiburon will contact the DTSC requesting immediate review and approval on
currently submitted hazardous waste management plans for Bay Area counties and
action on any other hazardous waste management plans within 90 days of submittal,
and
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Town Council will support sponsors
of legislation requiring 90-day review and action by the DTSC on county hazardous
waste management plans with a proviso that DTSC nonaction results in automatic
approval of county hazardous waste management plans.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the
Town of Tiburon on November 4, 1992, by the following vote:
AYES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: Friedman, Thayer, Nygren,
Thompson, Kuhn
NOES:
COUNCILMEMBERS: . None
ABSENT:
COUNCILMEMBERS: None
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ALVIN R. KUHN, MAYOR
Town of Tiburon
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ATTEST:
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THERESE M. ENNESSY, T CLERK
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