Section 25503.3.

(a) The office shall, in consultation with the administering agencies, in accordance with Section 25503.1, adopt by regulation a single comprehensive hazardous material reporting form for businesses to submit to administering agencies for purposes of Section 25509. The form shall include a section for additional information that may be requested by the administering agency. The regulations shall also specify criteria for sharing data electronically. Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), after January 1, 1997, each administering agency shall require businesses to use this form annually when complying with Section 25509.

(b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), an administering agency may allow a business to submit a form designated by the administering agency for purposes of the inventory required by Section 25509 instead of the single comprehensive hazardous material reporting form adopted pursuant to subdivision (a). Any form designated by an administering agency pursuant to this paragraph shall ensure that all of the information required by Section 25509 is reported. The form shall be developed in consultation with the other agencies within the jurisdiction that are responsible for fire protection, emergency response, and environmental health. If the administering agency permits inventory information to be submitted by electronic means, the format and mode of submittal shall be developed in consultation with those other agencies and, following the adoption of standards for the sharing of electronic data pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 25404, shall be consistent with those standards.

(2) If a business chooses to submit the single comprehensive hazardous material reporting form adopted pursuant to subdivision (a), the administering agency shall accept that form.

(c) Notwithstanding Section 25509, a business may comply with the annual inventory reporting requirements of this article by submitting a certification statement to the administering agency if both of the following apply:

(1) The business has previously filed the single comprehensive hazardous material reporting form required by subdivision (a) or the alternative form designated by the administering agency pursuant to subdivision (b).

(2) The business can attest to the statements set forth in paragraphs (1) to (4), inclusive, of subdivision (f) of Section 25501.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 358. Effective September 26, 2013. Operative July 1, 2013, by Sec. 543 of Ch. 352.)