California Code of Regulations
Title 27 - Environmental Protection
Division 3 - Electronic Submittal of Information
Subdivision 1 - Data Dictionary for Regulated Activities
Chapter 5 - COMPLIANCE, MONITORING AND ENFORCEMENT (CME) INFORMATION
2 - Inspection Information
Universal Citation: 27 CA Code of Regs 2
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
| ID | ELEMENT | CODES/CRITERIA | LENGTH | TYPE | INFORMATION DESCRIPTION | CERS MINIMALLY REQUIRED FIELDS |
| 1 | Facility ID Number | 13 | AN | A facility identifier assigned by the local regulator supporting cross-linking of CERS and local data system records. Because CUPAs do not consistently apply the original regulatory definition of this field (2 AN county 3 AN jurisdiction 6 AN facility number), CERS accepts any alphanumeric string up to 13 characters. The original regulator goals of this field are fulfilled through the CERS ID and CERS System Field "FacilityRegulatorKey" (20.0084). | False | |
| 1a | CERS ID | Cal/EPA assigned, 8- or 9- digit ID assigned to a specific facility that never has leading zeroes (begins at 10000001). Cal/EPA does not anticipate using 9- digit CERS IDs until the year 2020 or beyond. | 9 | N | A CERS ID is a Cal/EPA-assigned, 8- or 9- digit ID to uniquely identify a facility in CERS. The CERS ID should remain unchanged across different owners/operators of a facility. | False |
| 3 | Business Name | 70 | AN | Full legal name of business. | True | |
| 905 | Program Element | a = Hazardous Materials Release Response Plans (HMRRP) | 1 | AN | Program elements inspected. Enter one program element only. For example, a facility inspected for compliance with UST, hazardous waste and | True |
| b = California Accidental Release Prevention (CalARP) | hazardous materials storage regulations would have three records, one for each program element. Each record would have a unique set of | |||||
| c = Underground Storage Tank (UST) | violations, even though all inspections took place on the same date. For Tiered Permitting options | |||||
| d = Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act (APSA) | enter the highest tier. | |||||
| e = Hazardous Waste Generator | ||||||
| f = Hazardous Waste RCRA Large Quantity Generator (RCRA LQG) | Hazardous Waste RCRA Large Quantity Generator (RCRA LQG) is a subset of Hazardous Waste Generator. | |||||
| g = Hazardous Waste Recycler | Conditionally Authorized (CA) is only available if PBR is not used. Conditionally Exempt (CE) | |||||
| h = Permit by Rule (PBR) | is only available if PBR and CA are not used. | |||||
| i = Conditionally Authorized (CA) | ||||||
| j = Conditionally Exempt (CE) | ||||||
| k = Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) | ||||||
| 906 | Inspection Date | YYYY-MM-DD | 10 | D | Date of completion of inspection. For multiple day inspections, enter the first day of the inspection. | True |
| 907 | Inspection Type | a = Routine Inspection | 1 | AN | Indicates if inspection is routine or other. A routine inspection is a regularly scheduled | True |
| b = Other Inspection | inspection to evaluate compliance. Other inspections include complaint investigations, closure, release investigations, tank installation and/or removal oversight, tank cleaning, and follow-up enforcement inspections, or other inspections that may be in addition to a regularly scheduled inspection. This includes verification inspections for owners/operators of aboveground storage tanks having to prepare a spill prevention control and countermeasure plan. It does not include regularly scheduled inspections, field or site visits whose principle purpose is informational or educational, pollution prevention education, or visits needed to verify administrative information or orient new owners or operators. It does not include additional days of multiple day inspections at the same facility. A complaint inspection is a service request originating from any outside party, including the public that initiates a site visit outside of the routine inspection cycle. | |||||
| 910 | Number of Class I Violations | 2 | N | A Class I violation means a deviation that represents a significant threat to human health or safety or the environment because of the volume of the material, the relative hazardousness of the material, or the proximity of the population at risk. The deviation must be significant enough that it could result in releases of material to the environment, material failing to be delivered to an authorized facility, failure to detect releases of material, inadequate financial resources in the case of releases of material, or inadequate financial resources to pay for facility closure, perform emergency cleanup operations or other corrective actions. A Class I violation is also a deviation that is a chronic violation or committed by a recalcitrant violator. A Class I violation is typically one that is could be referred to the District Attorney or City Attorney for formal enforcement action. Sanctions are typically imposed for failure to correct the violation. Class I violations are defined in the Health and Safety Code (HSC) section 25110.8.5. | True | |
| 911 | Number of Class II Violations | 2 | N | A Class II violation means a deviation that is not a Class I violation. This count includes violations which would be considered minor, but are knowing, willful, or intentional, or enable the violator to benefit economically from noncompliance, either by reduced costs or competitive advantage. Do not include minor violations in this count. Class II violations are defined in 22 California Code of Regulations (CCR) 66260.10. | True | |
| 912 | Number of Minor Violations | 2 | N | A minor violation means a deviation from any regulation, standard, requirement, or permit condition, that is not a Class I violation. Exclude from this count all violations where the violation is knowing, willful, or intentional, or enables the violator to benefit economically from noncompliance, either by reduced costs or competitive advantage. These are counted as Class II violations. Also exclude any violation that is a chronic violation or that is committed by a recalcitrant violator, since these are counted as Class I violations. Do not report an inspection record as a Notice of Violation (NOV). CERS will automatically count an inspection record with listed violations as an NOV. If a UPA issues a separate NOV document, independent of the inspection report, the document should be reported as an NOV. | True | |
| 913a | Significant Operational | a = With only Release Detection | 1 | AN | Indicates if facility contains significant operational compliance criteria for release detection, | False |
| Compliance | b = With only Release Prevention | release prevention, or both based on the inspection. | ||||
| c =With both Release Detection and Release Prevention | ||||||
| d = No Significant Operational Compliance | ||||||
| 917 | Date Returned to Compliance | YYYY-MM-DD | 10 | D | Date physical compliance was determined by the CUPA for all violations identified during the inspection. This may not be based on a site visit, but is the date compliance was verified. It may be based on correspondence received from the regulated business. | False |
| 929 | Inspection Comments | 1000 | AN | Additional details about this Inspection. | False |
1. New table filed 11-16-2004; operative 12-16-2004 (Register 2004, No. 47).
2. Amendment filed 12-18-2007; operative 1-17-2008 (Register 2007, No. 51).
3. Amendment filed 12-17-2013; operative 12-17-2013 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2013, No. 51).
4. Amendment of Data Element ID Nos. 906, 907 and 912 filed 6-14-2018; operative 7-1-2018 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2018, No. 24).
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