Bill Text: CA AB1023 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Air resources: greenhouse gas emissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1023 Detail]
Download: California-2013-AB1023-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 1023 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 8, 2013
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 21, 2013
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Eggman
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Chesbro )
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
An act to add Chapter 4.2 (commencing with Section 39724) to Part
2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to air
resources.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1023, as amended, Eggman. Air resources: greenhouse gas
emissions.
Existing law, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006,
requires the State Air Resources Board to adopt a statewide
greenhouse gas emissions limit. Existing law requires the California
Environmental Protection Agency to identify disadvantaged communities
and requires the Department of Finance to develop a specified 3-year
investment plan for the expenditure of funds in the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund in the State Treasury to achieve reductions of
greenhouse gas emissions, including increased in-state waste
diversion through waste reduction, diversion, and reuse.
This bill would enact the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
through Through Recycling, Composting, and
Recycled Content Manufacturing Investment Program and would require
the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to implement the
program , including developing standards and guidelines and
implementing the market development program required by the bill,
by expending funds appropriated by the Legislature for purposes
of the program.
The bill would require the department, in consultation with the
board, to annually identify industry sectors that can reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions through the increased use of recycled
content or by recovering putrescible materials that would have
emitted greenhouse gases if disposed. The bill would require the
department to develop a market development program that would provide
incentives for those eligible industry sectors to make investments
for waste reduction, recycling, composting, and recycled
manufacturing projects that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The bill would require the department to implement the market
development program by disbursing funds to private or public entities
in the form of incentive payments or grants for capital equipment.
The bill would require the department to give priority, when
disbursing funds, to projects benefiting or located in disadvantaged
communities, as specified.
The bill would state the intent of the Legislature regarding the
appropriation of funds for purposes of the program.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
(a) Recycling is one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce
greenhouse gases, and often ranks as "cost-negative" in analyses
evaluating cost effectiveness of various greenhouse gas reduction
strategies.
(b) Investing in the burgeoning anaerobic digestion industry
reduces emissions from landfills, creates a low-carbon fuel that
reduces emissions in the transportation sector, and generates
renewable energy.
(c) In addition to reducing landfill emission, the application of
compost saves .42 net tons of CO2 for each ton composted through soil
carbon storage, and decreases water use, fertilizer use, and soil
erosion, according to data prepared by the State Air Resources Board.
(d) The State Air Resources Board has identified California's
energy-intensive glass container manufacturing sector as a leading
generator of greenhouse gas emissions and has included this sector as
a "covered entity" under the "Cap and Trade Program" adopted
pursuant to the market-based compliance mechanism authorized by
Division 25 (commencing with Section 38500) of the Health and Safety
Code.
(e) According to data from the United States Environmental
Protection Agency, for every 1 percent increase in recycled content
in the manufacture of new glass containers, there is an approximate 1
percent decrease in total direct greenhouse gas emissions from the
manufacturer and there is also a comparable upstream benefit that
results from not having to engage in mining or processing virgin
inputs.
(f) According to a recent study from the Tellus Institute, the
collection and processing of recyclables generates nearly four times
as many jobs as compared to disposal, and domestic recycled content
processing and manufacturing of these recycled materials adds an
additional 2.5 to 18 jobs for every 1,000 tons recycled.
SEC. 2. Chapter 4.2 (commencing with Section 39724) is added to
Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
CHAPTER 4.2. GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION THROUGH
THROUGH RECYCLING, COMPOSTING, AND RECYCLED
CONTENT MANUFACTURING INVESTMENT PROGRAM
39724. (a) This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the
"Greenhouse Gas Reduction through Through
Recycling, Composting, and Recycled Content Manufacturing
Investment Program."
(b) For purposes of this chapter "department" means the Department
of Resources Recycling and Recovery.
39725. (a) The department shall implement this chapter ,
including developing standards and guidelines and implementing the
market development program required by Section 39726, by
expending funds appropriated by the Legislature for purposes of this
chapter.
(b) The department, in coordination with the state board, as
appropriate, shall establish the Greenhouse Gas Reduction through
Recycling, Composting, and Recycled Content Manufacturing Investment
Program pursuant to this chapter to provide incentives or grants for
waste reduction, recycling, composting, and recycled content
manufacturing projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions in this
state.
39726. (a) The department, in consultation with the state board,
shall annually identify industry sectors that can reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions through the increased use of recycled
content or by recovering putrescible materials that would have
emitted greenhouse gases if disposed.
(b) The eligible industry sectors that the department may identify
pursuant to subdivision (a) may include, but are not limited to, all
of the following:
(1) Composting and anaerobic digestion.
(2) Recycled container glass manufacturing.
(3) Food processing.
(4) Recycled paper and paperboard manufacturing.
(5) Recycled plastic manufacturing.
(c) Upon identifying the eligible industry sectors pursuant to
subdivision (a), the department shall develop a market development
program that would provide incentives for those eligible industry
sectors to make investments for waste reduction, recycling,
composting, and recycled content manufacturing projects that would
reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(d) The department shall implement the market development program
by disbursing funds to private or public entities in the form of
incentive payments or grants for capital equipment.
(e) The funds disbursed as investments by the department pursuant
to subdivision (d) shall not exceed thirty million dollars
($30,000,000) per year.
(f) The department shall give priority, when disbursing funds for
investments pursuant to this chapter, to projects benefiting or
located within the same disadvantaged communities that are identified
by the California Environmental Protection Agency pursuant to
Section 39711, for purposes of Chapter 4.1 (commencing with Section
39710). The department shall disburse not less than 25 percent of the
funds disbursed pursuant to this chapter for projects benefiting
these communities and not less than 10 percent of the funds disbursed
pursuant to this chapter shall be allocated for projects located
within these communities.
39727. It is the intent of the Legislature that moneys shall be
appropriated for this chapter only in a manner consistent with the
requirements of this part, including Chapter 4.1 (commencing with
Section 39710), and Article 9.7 (commencing with Section 16428.8) of
Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
