Bill Text: CA SB589 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Recycling: household mercury-containing lamps.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-28 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB589 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB589-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 589	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lowenthal
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Allen)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 42885.5 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 589, as introduced, Lowenthal. Solid waste: tire recycling.
   The California Tire Recycling Act imposes a California tire fee on
a new tire purchased in the state and the revenue generated from the
fee is deposited in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund
for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, by the
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The department is
required to expend these funds in a manner consistent with the 5-year
plan that the department is required to adopt and update biennially,
to establish goals and priorities for the waste tire program.
   This bill would require the 5-year plan to reflect the priorities
for waste reduction and recycling specified in the California
Integrated Waste Management Act.
   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.  Section 42885.5 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   42885.5.  (a) The  board   department 
shall adopt a five-year plan, which shall be updated every two years,
to establish goals and priorities for the waste tire program and
each program element.  The five-year plan shall reflect the
priorities for waste reduction and recycling specified in Section
40051. 
   (b) On or before July 1, 2001, and every two years thereafter, the
 board   department  shall submit the
adopted five-year plan to the appropriate policy and fiscal
committees of the Legislature. The  board  
department  shall include in the plan, programmatic and fiscal
issues including, but not limited to, the hierarchy used by the
 board   department  to maximize productive
uses of waste and used tires, and the performance objectives and
measurement criteria used by the  board  
department  to evaluate the success of its waste and used tire
recycling program. Additionally, the plan shall describe each program
element's effectiveness, based upon performance measures developed
by the  board   department  , including,
but not limited to, the following:
   (1) Enforcement and regulations relating to the storage of waste
and used tires.
   (2) Cleanup, abatement, or other remedial action related to waste
tire stockpiles throughout the state.
   (3) Research directed at promoting and developing alternatives to
the landfill disposal of waste tires.
   (4) Market development and new technology activities for used
tires and waste tires.
   (5) The waste and used tire hauler program and manifest system.
   (6) A description of the grants, loans, contracts, and other
expenditures proposed to be made by the  board  
department  under the tire recycling program. 
   (7) Until June 30, 2010, the grant program authorized under
Section 42872.5 to encourage the use of rubberized asphalt concrete
technology in public works projects.  
   (8) 
    (7   )  Border region activities, conducted in
coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (A) Training programs to assist Mexican waste and used tire
haulers to meet the requirements for hauling those tires in
California.
   (B) Environmental education training.
   (C) Development of a waste tire abatement plan, with the
appropriate government entities of California and Mexico.
   (D) Tracking both the legal and illegal waste and used tire flow
across the border and recommended revisions to the waste tire
policies of California and Mexico.
   (E) Coordination with businesses operating in the border region
and with Mexico, with regard to applying the same environmental and
control requirements throughout the border region.
   (F) Development of projects in Mexico in the California-Mexico
border region, as defined by the La Paz Agreement, that include, but
are not limited to, education, infrastructure, mitigation, cleanup,
prevention, reuse, and recycling projects, that address the movement
of used tires from California to Mexico that are eventually disposed
of in California.
   (c) The  board   department  shall base
the budget for the California Tire Recycling Act and program funding
on the plan.
   (d) The plan may not propose financial or other support that
promotes, or provides for research for  ,  the incineration
of tires.