All operators are required to comply with the provisions established by SB 1137 and the SB 1137 First Emergency Implementation Regulations. Sensitive receptor inventories and maps must comply with the content and format requirements outlined in CCR 1765.7 and 1765.8, and all operators are responsible for verifying that their inventories and maps are accurate and complete.

A brief public survey to get feedback on locations that may, or may not, be within a Health Protection Zone as defined in Senate Bill 1137.

Health Protection Zones are created around Sensitive Receptors and are described in the Department of Conservations emergency regulations as follows:

§ 1765.1. Definitions.

(a) For the purpose of this article, “area” means surface area, and all measurement of distances is on the surface of the land.

(b) For the purpose of this article, “Health Protection Zone” means the area within 3,200 feet of a sensitive receptor. The measurement shall be made from the property line of the receptor unless the receptor building is more than 50 feet set back from the property line, in which case the measurement shall be made from the outline of the building footprint to 3,200 feet in all directions.

(c) For the purposes of this article, a “sensitive receptor” means any of the following:

(1) A residence, including a private home, condominium, apartment, and living quarter.

(2) An education resource, including a preschool, school maintaining transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, daycare center, park, playground, university, and college. Where a university or college is the only sensitive receptor within 3,200 feet of the operator’s wellheads or production facilities, the university or college is not a sensitive receptor if the operator demonstrates to the Division’s satisfaction that no building with nominal daily occupancy on the university or college campus is located within 3,200 feet of the operator’s wellheads or production facilities.

(3) A community resource center, including a youth center.

(4) A health care facility, including a hospital, retirement home, and nursing home.

(5) Live-in housing, including a long-term care hospital, hospice, prison, detention center, and dormitory.

(6) Any building housing a business that is open to the public.

(d) A park is an education resource for purposes of subdivision (c) if it is an area that is open to the public for outdoor recreation that is at least partially within one-quarter mile of a residence or another education resource. Only the portion of a park that is within one-quarter mile of a residence or another education resource shall be considered a sensitive receptor.

(e) If a building is open to the public, then for purposes of subdivision (c) it is either a business that is open to the public or it is a community resource center. A building is open to the public if visitors are regularly permitted on the premises who are not the owner of the building or a tenant of the building and are not employees, contractors, or service providers of the owner of the building or of a tenant of the building.

Authority: Sections 3013, 3106 and 3288 Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 3011, 3106 and 3280 Public Resources Code.