Hazardous Materials

California Environmental Protection Agency: Cal/EPA has a NEIEN grant to deliver inspection and enforcement data on California’s Large Quantity Generators (LQG) of hazardous materials to U. S. EPA’s Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Information System (RCRAInfo) database. This will be done by first developing an LQG database, developing a Web-based data entry application or data submission application to allow data updates, and developing a method of outputting the data for inclusion into RCRAInfo.

Santa Clara County: The Santa Clara County Fire Chiefs Association along with the Santa Clara County Environmental Health Department, the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, and Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce Environmental Health and Safety Forum have created the Hazardous Materials Online Inventory Project (HMOIP). The HMOIP offers tangible benefits to industry and local agencies that use the system including a growing chemical database, automatic generation of building occupancy and other reports, instant document ‘submission’, and real time access for emergency responders to facility maps, inventories and more recently, site photos. It provides a time-saving opportunity to collect accurate, verified data, which is then electronically available to authorized agencies. This project creates new opportunities to exchange information among many agencies and creates new opportunities for businesses, consultants, and local agencies to participate. It enhances emergency response capabilities and provides critical homeland security information to authorized personnel that are not currently shared among agencies while maintaining security for non public information such as site plans and facility maps. http://www.unidocs.org/hmoip/index.html

Pesticides

Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA): OEHHA is piloting a pesticide illness reporting database in cooperation with DPH and DPR. Doctors will use an internet-based form to report illnesses suspected to be caused by exposure to pesticides. DPH will use this data in their Environmental Health Tracking Program.

Cal/EPA: Contributing to the OEHHA/DPH project above, Cal/EPA is demonstrating a database conversion that will take existing pesticide use information from DPR, translate the data into XML and exchange that data with the Waterboard, DPH, OEHHA, and other organizations who do research on pesticide use.

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