The Enforcement and Emergency Response Program (EERP) monitors hazardous waste transfer, storage, treatment and disposal facilities for illegal activity; including electronic manifest surveillance and monitoring of registered hazardous waste haulers; and takes appropriate enforcement action against hazardous waste handlers that violate hazardous waste requirements found through routine inspections, complaint investigations, and focused enforcement initiatives. EERP also provides compliance assistance.
EERP carries out a technical investigation program that provides sampling, technical site investigation and expert testimony for civil and criminal investigations brought by Regional Environmental Crimes Task Forces, District Attorneys, Federal Attorneys and the State Attorney General.
EERP conducts a financial assurance activity that assures commercial hazardous waste management facilities have adequate financial resources to cover both sudden accidental liability and the long term costs of facility closure.
Hazardous Waste Hotline
If you are reporting a crime in progress, please call 911
If you wish to report another type of incident involving improper handling of hazardous waste, you can contact your local hazardous waste agency, or contact DTSC's Waste Alert Hotline at 800-698-6942, or file an environmental complaint.
The final report, submitted by the Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), Enforcement and Emergency Response Program (EERP) includes activities performed by the Northern California Branch, Cypress Branch, Glendale Branch, State Oversight and Enforcement Branch (SOEB), Task Force Investigations Support Branch (TFISB), and Criminal Investigations Branch (CIB) between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, which were reimbursable under the RCRA Grant.
Effective April 9, 2007, EERP was created as a merger of the following entities: the Statewide Compliance Division (Comprised of the Northern California Branch, Cypress Branch, Glendale Branch, and SOEB); TFISB and CIB (both formerly structured under the Office of Legal Affairs); and the Emergency Response and Special Projects Branch (ERSPB), which was formerly structured under the Site Mitigation and Brownfields Reuse Program.
Index of Site/Facility Pages That Include Enforcement Documents
DTSC posts on its Web site key documents related to entities that manage hazardous waste generators; transporters; facilities permitted with RCRA or Standardized Permits; and other authorizations and notifications
If you can't find the project you are looking for, check the Site Cleanup Project Documents, Envirostor, or call our Regulatory Assistance Officers at (800) 728-6942.
