BILL NUMBER: AB 2564	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Ma

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to amend Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2564, as introduced, Ma. Solid waste: management.
   Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery and local agencies, when implementing the California
Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, to promote certain waste
management practices in a specified order of priority.
   This bill would make a technical nonsubstantive change to those
requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   40051.  In implementing this division, the  board
  department  and local agencies shall do both of
the following:
   (a) Promote the following waste management practices in order of
priority:
   (1) Source reduction.
   (2) Recycling and composting.
   (3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally safe
land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county.
   (b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling,
and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste
that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For
wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or
composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe
transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of
those practices.