Section 43200.

(a) The board shall prepare and adopt certification regulations for local enforcement agencies. The regulations shall specify requirements that a local agency shall meet before being designated as an enforcement agency. The regulations shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

(1) Technical expertise.

(2) (A) Adequacy of staff resources.

(B) For the purposes of this paragraph, the board shall adopt regulations for specified enforcement agencies, as defined in subparagraph (C), which meet all of the following requirements:

(i) The regulations shall not require a specific number of person-hours or staff resources for the performance of duties as a specified enforcement agency.

(ii) The regulations shall establish performance standards for specified enforcement agencies which will provide a comparable level of public health and safety and environmental protection to that required of other local agencies certified pursuant to this article.

(iii) The regulations shall establish procedures to ensure that all duties required of specified enforcement agencies pursuant to this article are actually performed.

(iv) The regulations shall require specified enforcement agency personnel to receive a comparable level of training to that required of personnel employed by other local agencies certified pursuant to this article.

(C) For the purposes of subparagraph (B), "specified enforcement agency" means a local enforcement agency which has a population of less than 50,000 persons.

(3) Adequacy of budget resources.

(4) Training requirements.

(5) The existence of at least one permitted solid waste facility within the jurisdiction of the local agency. For the purposes of this paragraph, "permitted solid waste facility" includes a proposed solid waste facility for which an environmental impact report or negative declaration has been prepared and certified pursuant to Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) or for which a conditional use permit has been issued by a city or county.

(b) The regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall specify four separate types of certifications for which an enforcement agency may be designated, as follows:

(1) Permitting, inspection, and enforcement of regulations at solid waste landfills.

(2) Permitting, inspection, and enforcement of solid waste incinerators.

(3) Permitting, inspection, and enforcement of transfer and processing stations.

(4) Inspection and enforcement of litter, odor, and nuisance regulations at solid waste landfills.

(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 665, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994.)