Bill Text: CA SB613 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: low-population waiver.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 878, Statutes of 2023. [SB613 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB613-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 613
CHAPTER 878
An act to add Section 42652.8 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.
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Approved by
Governor
October 13, 2023.
Filed with
Secretary of State
October 13, 2023.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 613, Seyarto.
Organic waste: reduction goals: local jurisdictions: low-population waiver.
Existing law requires the State Air Resources Board to approve and begin implementing a comprehensive short-lived climate pollutant strategy to achieve a certain reduction in statewide emissions of methane, including a goal of a 75% reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025.
Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the state board, to adopt regulations that achieve those targets for reducing organic waste in landfills that may include, among other things, different levels of requirements for local
jurisdictions and phased timelines based upon their progress in meeting the organic waste reduction goals, and penalties to be imposed by the department for noncompliance.
This bill would, for a local jurisdiction, as defined, waive those requirements and regulations until December 31, 2028, if the local jurisdiction does not qualify for other specified waivers, disposed of
fewer than 5,000 tons of solid waste in 2014, and has fewer than 7,500 people, as provided. Beginning January 1, 2027, the bill would authorize the department, in its discretion, to renew the waiver, as provided.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 42652.8 is added to the Public Resources Code, to read:42652.8.
(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, a local jurisdiction that does not qualify for a waiver pursuant to subdivision (a), (c), or (d) of Section 18984.12 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, as that section read on January 1, 2023, that disposed of fewer than 5,000 tons of solid waste in 2014, and that has fewer than 7,500 people, qualifies for a waiver until December 1, 2028.(b) A local jurisdiction seeking a low population waiver pursuant to
subdivision (a) shall apply to the department. The application shall include both of the following:
(1) Information that establishes that the local jurisdiction meets the criteria in subdivision (a).
(2) The number of tons of solid waste that the local jurisdiction disposed of in 2014 if the local jurisdiction has not submitted the 2014 data directly to the department’s disposal reporting system in 2014.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2027, the department may, in its discretion, renew a waiver issued pursuant to subdivision (a) in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 18984.12 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
(d) For the purposes of this section, “local jurisdiction” includes a city, a county, a city and county, or a special district.
