BILL NUMBER: SB 607	CHAPTERED  09/22/03

	CHAPTER  478
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 22, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 22, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 28, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 16, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 24, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Aanestad

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to amend Section 14509.4 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to beverage container recycling.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 607, Aanestad.  Beverage container recycling.
   The California Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction
Act defines "convenience zone," for purposes of providing recycling
centers under the act, as an area within a1/2 mile radius of a
supermarket or, alternatively, as a zone designated by the Department
of Conservation in an underserved area with no supermarket.
   This bill would revise that definition of "convenience zone" to
delete the alternative designation of a convenience zone.  The bill,
instead, would provide that in a rural region, as specified, the
Department of Conservation may, upon petition of an interested
person, increase a convenience zone that is otherwise not being
served by a certified recycling center or location or is exempted by
the department, to include the area within a 3-mile radius of a
supermarket, if the expanded convenience zone would then be served by
a certified recycling center or location.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 14509.4 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   14509.4.  "Convenience zone" means all of the following:
   (a) The area within a one-half mile radius of a supermarket.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), in a rural region, as
identified pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of
subdivision (b) of Section 14571, the department may, upon petition
by an interested person, increase a convenience zone that meets the
requirements of paragraph (2) to include the area within a three-mile
radius of a supermarket, if the expanded convenience zone would then
be served by a certified recycling center or location.
   (2) Paragraph (1) applies only to a convenience zone that is
otherwise not being served by a certified recycling center or
location meeting the requirements of Section 14571 or is exempted by
the department pursuant to Section 14571.8.