California Code of Regulations
Title 14 - Natural Resources
Division 7 - Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
Chapter 10 - Solid Waste Cleanup Program
Article 3 - Site Selection and Ranking Criteria
Section 18904 - Eligible and Ineligible Remedial Actions

(a) Remedial actions taken pursuant to the Solid Waste Cleanup Program shall, to the extent practicable, contribute to the efficient performance of any anticipated long-term remedial action with respect to the specific threat to public health and safety and/or the environment addressed under the program.

(b) Remedial actions that are appropriate for the use of funds include, but are not limited to: waste removal and disposal; security measures such as fences and warning signs; drainage controls; slope and foundation stabilization; excavation, consolidation, and capping of waste areas; field and laboratory testing; and installation of landfill gas and leachate control systems.

This list is not exhaustive and shall not prevent the Board from taking other necessary and appropriate actions and does not create a duty on the Board to take action at any particular time.

(c) Ineligible actions include, but are not limited to: closure as defined in Section of Title 2720164 of Title 27, Division 2 of the California Code of Regulations; ground water remediation; operation and maintenance of leachate, surface water, or vadose zone monitoring systems; closure and postclosure maintenance services; improvements to property for postclosure land uses; preparation of closure or postclosure maintenance plans; removal, abatement, and cleanup or otherwise handling of only hazardous substances as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 [42 U.S.C. section 9601(14)] not codisposed with nonhazardous solid waste.

(d) The remediation of landfill or disposal site fires pursuant to this chapter will only be eligible in situations where the fire is remediated as one part of a project approved by the Board under the applicable criteria for any other project approved for remediation under this program.

(e) Eligible activities regarding emergency actions at disposal sites pursuant to this chapter include technical assistance to local emergency response agencies. The Board may consider approval of funding of final site remediation pursuant to this chapter after the emergency response if all other applicable criteria are met.