BILL ANALYSIS
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Date of Hearing: July 9, 2008
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mark Leno, Chair
SB 1016 (Wiggins) - As Amended: July 2, 2008
Policy Committee: Natural Resources
Vote: 8-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
Yes Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill modifies factors used by the California Integrated
Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to determine a local
jurisdiction's compliance with requirements to reduce their rate
of solid waste disposal and reduces the frequency by which the
CIWMB must review a local jurisdiction's annual report to the
board on its waste management program. Specifically, this bill:
1)Shifts the focus, from 50% diversion to 50% disposal
reduction, of the current requirement that a local
jurisdiction reduce its solid waste disposal over what it
would have been given local growth factors.
2)Allows the CIWMB, for local jurisdictions meeting the 50%
requirement or making a good faith effort to do so, to review
the jurisdiction every four years to determine compliance, and
allows the board to review the jurisdiction every two years if
not in compliance and not making a good faith effort to
comply.
3)Allows the CIWMB to require local jurisdictions to submit
their annual reports electronically and requires the board to
annually visit each jurisdiction to monitor its solid waste
management programs.
4)Makes several other clarifying and conforming changes to solid
waste diversion provisions.
5)Requires a community college district to spend the proceeds it
earns from the sale of recyclable materials in a manner that
offsets its recycling program costs.
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FISCAL EFFECT
1)Minor costs, if any, to the CIWMB to modify its process for
calculating a local jurisdiction's solid waste diversion from
disposal rate. (Integrated Waste Management Account (IWMA).)
2)Moderate ongoing savings to the CIWMB resulting from the
consolidation of information in the local jurisdiction report
and the reduced frequency with which the board must review
those reports. (IWMA.)
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . This bill, sponsored by the CIWMB, simplifies the
process for determining whether or not a local jurisdiction is
complying with the 50% solid waste diversion requirement,
shifts the focus from diversion to solid waste disposal
reduction expressed as a per capita rate, and streamlines the
board's local jurisdiction compliance review process.
2)Background . AB 939 (Sher) - Chapter 1095, Statutes of 1989,
among other things, restructured the CIWMB, established the
state's 50% diversion program and a state tipping fee imposed
at $1 per ton of solid waste brought to a solid waste facility
for disposal. Subsequent legislation increased the maximum
tipping fee to $1.34 in 1994 and $1.40 in 1995.
Achieving the 50% solid waste diversion goal does not mean
that the volume of solid waste disposed of in landfills in
California has decreased by 50%. Indeed, while several
communities have met or exceeded the 50% solid waste diversion
goals established by AB 939, actual disposal of solid
waste statewide has increased substantially since 1990. Solid
waste disposed and subject to the state tipping fee amounted
to 40.1 million tons in 1990, dropped consistently to 32.9
million tons in 1996, but has consistently increased to a
projected 43 million tons in 2007. The 31% increase in solid
waste disposal statewide since 1996 has actually outpaced the
16% increase in the state's population.
Analysis Prepared by : Steve Archibald / APPR. / (916)
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