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ABOVEGROUND PETROLEUM STORAGE ACT (APSA) PROGRAM . GRANT APPLICATION (iii) Registration activities including application submittals, plan reviews, modifications and revisions, and fiacility evaluations; (iv) Training including field, meetings, seminars, workshops, courses and literature reviews; (v) Administrative including program implementation and cost analysis, facility self-certification tracking, APSA fee development and UP procedural or ordinance review/revision; (vi) Management including short term operation scheduling and supervision, long term program planning and implementation, grant management and invoicing, UP program integration and reporting. By February 2010, sufficient information will have been collected on the necessary resources to implement the APSA program and initiate a locally funded .fee based enterprise fund to replace the EPTF grant funding source. C. Staff Training Plan CUPA staff will attend the AST Training Program developed by Cal/EPA, which is scheduled to be delivered in late summer -early fall of 2008 in order to be certified to perform APSA inspections and compliance evaluations. In future, newly hired APSA Program staff will go through the AST computer- based training course currently under development for Inspector certification. The APSA Program standards will be incorporated into the CUPA's ongoing training program and provided to program staff on a regular basis. The UP training module for the AST program will be updated to reflect APSA implementation by March 2009. D. Inspection and Compliance Plan As part of the City of San Leandro CUPA's Unified Inspection and Enforcement Program, the CUPA will ensure all regulated businesses subject to the APSA Program are in compliance with all the program requirements, including SPCC Plan preparation and implementation, annual submission of their facility statement, and spill notifications. Exempted tank facilities will be periodically reviewed to verify that their total tank capacity is less than 20,000 gallons and to ensure they are performing and documenting their daily tank inspections. Tank facilities with storage capacity of ?1,320 and <10,000 gallons will be periodically reviewed to verify that their total tank capacity is less than 10,000 gallons, to ensure that they have prepared and are implementing an SPCC Plan, are submitting their annual facility statements, and are paying applicable Unified Program fees. Tank facilities with storage capacity of >_10,000 gallons will be inspected at least once every three years to ensure that they have prepared and are implementing an SPCC Plan in compliance with U.S. Code of Federal Regulations, 40CFR part 112. The inspection will also include visual inspection of a representative sample of the tanks at the tank facility. The inspection and all violations discovered during the inspections will be documented on an inspection report form. Minor violations will be clearly identified and required to be corrected within 30 days. The owner/operator of the tank facility will be required to certify that all minor violations have been corrected. For more significant or serious violations, the CUPA will initiate higher levels of enforcement, including an administrative enforcement action or referral of the case to the City Attorney or County District Attorney for civil enforcement. 3 ~ APSA GRANT APPLICATION -March 2008