California Environmental Protection Agency: Department of Toxic Substances Control: brownfields: report.

Existing law requires the Department of Toxic Substances Control to, on or before January 1, 2006, revise and upgrade the department's database systems, as specified, and to install improvements to the database systems to maintain and display information that includes the number of brownfield sites, each brownfield site's location, acreage, response action, site assessments, and the number of orphan sites where the department is overseeing the response action. Existing law establishes in the government the California Environmental Protection Agency under the supervision of an officer known as the Secretary for Environmental Protection. Existing law requires the secretary to designate a brownfields ombudsperson whose responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting in the coordination of the brownfields activities of each office, board, and department within the California Environmental Protection Agency. This bill would require, by December 31, 2021, the California Environmental Protection Agency to complete a programmatic review of the department's existing grant and loan programs for brownfields and a comprehensive review of brownfields in the state that includes various information, as prescribed. The bill would require the agency to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the review by no later than February 1, 2021.