Contra Costa County
Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, Hazardous Materials Programs (Certified Unified Program Agency)
In short
Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, Hazardous Materials Programs (Certified Unified Program Agency) issues 3 permits we publish for Contra Costa County, last verified 2026-10-02. Each carries the fee as the agency publishes it, with a link to the schedule it was read from.
What this agency issues
| Permit | Issuing agency | Fee | Renews | Last checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) Annual Permitonly if it applies to you | Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, Hazardous Materials Programs (Certified Unified Program Agency) | Tiered by chemical inventory: under 1,000 lbs = $421 (lowest tier), scaling up to $64,220 for the highest tier (1 billion+ lbs, including the flat refinery rate). A $96 initial permit processing fee applies to newly regulated businesses or ownership changes. Incident-response fees for non-regulated-entity responses are $365 per hour per staff member during business hours and $404 per hour per staff member after hours. | annual, fiscal year July 1 - June 30 | 2026-10-02 |
| Hazardous Waste Generator (HWG) Program Feeonly if it applies to you | Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, Hazardous Materials Programs (Certified Unified Program Agency) | Tiered by annual waste volume: Very Small Quantity Generator (under 1.3 tons/year) = $200, scaling up to $40,195 for 2,000 or more tons/year. | annual | 2026-10-02 |
| UST / APSA Program Feesonly if it applies to you | Contra Costa County Fire Protection District, Hazardous Materials Programs (Certified Unified Program Agency) | Underground Storage Tank (UST) and Aboveground Petroleum Storage Act (APSA) program fees are tiered by tank category and storage capacity on the same adopted fee exhibit (Resolution No. 2024-293, Exhibit 1) that sets the HMBP and Hazardous Waste Generator fees above. Contact CCCFPD's CUPA program for the current dollar figure for a specific tank count or capacity. | annual (UST permit); per facility (APSA permit) | 2026-10-02 |
Fees shown as a range or formula are set that way by the issuing agency — we do not average them into a single number.
About each permit
Hazardous Materials Business Plan (HMBP) Annual Permit
The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (CCCFPD) is the county's sole Certified Unified Program Agency (CUPA) and administers this program countywide — confirmed by CalEPA's own statewide Unified Program Regulator Directory, which lists Contra Costa Fire Protection District as the sole Contra Costa entry, and by CCCFPD's own site, which currently hosts the CUPA fee schedule and program pages. A business storing hazardous materials above threshold quantities (55 gallons liquid, 500 lbs solid, or 200 cubic feet compressed gas, aggregated) must file a Hazardous Materials Business Plan and register through the state's CERS system. Industries most likely to trip the threshold include auto-repair (used oil, solvents, batteries), veterinary (anesthetic gases, cleaning chemicals), salons with large-volume chemical storage, contractors storing fuel or paint at a yard, and restaurants or coffee shops with bulk CO2 or chemical storage. Contact hazmat@cccfpd.org, (925) 655-3200, for current CERS registration and inventory-tier questions.
Hazardous Waste Generator (HWG) Program Fee
A business generating hazardous waste — an auto-repair shop disposing of waste oil, antifreeze or solvents, a veterinary clinic disposing of sharps or pharmaceutical waste in volume, or a salon disposing of spent chemicals in volume — registers as a hazardous waste generator with CCCFPD, the same agency that administers the HMBP program above, since CCCFPD is the county's sole CUPA rather than one of several city-level agencies. The fee tier is set by annual waste volume, from the Very Small Quantity Generator rate up to the largest-volume tier.
UST / APSA Program Fees
An auto-repair shop with underground fuel or waste-oil tanks, or a contractor's yard with an aboveground fuel storage tank above the APSA threshold, permits it through CCCFPD as the county's sole CUPA. The adopted fee exhibit (Resolution No. 2024-293, Exhibit 1) sets UST and APSA fee tiers by tank category and capacity alongside the HMBP and Hazardous Waste Generator tiers listed as separate county records; the exhibit's individual UST/APSA dollar figures are not restated here, so a business should confirm the tier for its specific tank configuration directly with CCCFPD, (925) 655-3200, hazmat@cccfpd.org, before budgeting.
Contact
- Jurisdiction
- Contra Costa County
- Phone
- (925) 655-3200
Contact details are taken from the agency’s own site or its published fee schedule. Where we have not verified a phone number we leave it blank rather than guess.
Sources
Every fee and term above was read from one of these government pages on the date shown.
- Board Resolution No. 2024-293 — CUPA/Hazardous Materials Program Fee Schedule AdoptionContra Costa County Board of Supervisors · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Hazardous Materials ProgramsContra Costa County Fire Protection District · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Resolution No. 2024-293, Exhibit 1 — CUPA/Hazardous Materials Program Fee ScheduleContra Costa County Board of Supervisors · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
- Unified Program Regulator Directory — Contra Costa record (Contra Costa Fire Protection District)California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) · primary source · retrieved 2026-10-02
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