Hazardous materials: farms: business plans and inventories.

Existing law generally requires a business that handles a hazardous material to establish and implement a business plan for emergency response to a release or threatened release of a hazardous material, with specified exceptions. Existing law specifies the contents of the business plan, including an inventory, and requires it to be submitted to the administering agency, as defined. This bill would exempt a business operating a farm for purposes of cultivating the soil or raising or harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity from establishing and implementing one of those business plans if the only hazardous materials that the farm has onsite are specified amounts of lubricating oils, fertilizers, or other hazardous materials that are onsite for less than 10 days at a time.