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                                                                  SB 579
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          Date of Hearing:   August 4, 2010

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                   SB 579 (Lowenthal) - As Amended:  April 8, 2010 

          Policy Committee:                              Natural  
          ResourcesVote:7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes technical and clean-up amendments to the  
          California Oil Recycling Enhancement Act.  Specifically, the  
          bill deletes reference to the Integrated Waste Management Board  
          (IWMB) and replaces it with reference the Department of  
          Resources Recycling and Recovery (Calrecycle).  It also corrects  
          a one-word typographical error-changing "protecting" to  
          "product." 

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          No state costs.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  The author describes this bill as necessary to  
            correct minor but consequential drafting errors in a bill  
            signed into law in 2009.  The author's office states the bill  
            is not a spot bill to be significantly amended at a later  
            date.

           2)Background  .  SB 63 (Strickland), Chapter 21, Statutes of 2009,  
            abolished the IWMB and transferred all of its duties and  
            responsibilities to DRRR, which was created within the Natural  
            Resources Agency, under the direction of an executive officer  
            appointed by the Governor.

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081