BILL NUMBER: AB 513	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Frazier
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Chesbro and Gordon)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Garcia, Skinner, and Stone)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2013

   An act to add Section 42872.1 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to tire recycling  , and making an appropriation
therefor  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 513, as amended, Frazier. Tire recycling program: rubberized
asphalt.
   The California Tire Recycling Act  (act) 
requires a person who purchases a new tire to pay a California tire
fee, for deposit in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund,
for expenditure by the  department   Department
of Resources Recycling and Recovery  , upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to pay the costs of operating the tire recycling
program. The act provides that the tire recycling program may include
the awarding of grants, loans, subsidies, and rebates and the
payment of incentives for various purposes related to reducing
landfill disposal of used whole tires and tire recycling.
   This bill would establish the Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Market
Development Act and would require the department, in accordance with
the tire recycling program, to award grants for certain public agency
projects that utilize rubberized asphalt concrete. The bill , on
January 1, 2014, and January 1 of each year thereafter,  would
 require the department to annually expend  
require the Controller to transfer  $10,000,000 from the moneys
authorized to be expended for the tire recycling  program,
upon appropriation by the Legislature,   program to the
department  to award these grants  ,   thereby
making an appropriation .  The bill, however, would require
the Controller to transfer only $5,000,000 from the moneys authorized
to be expended for the tire recycling program to the department to
award these grants for any year that the Department of Finance
determines that the balance of the fund equals $10,000,000 or less.
 The bill would require the grants to pay $2 for every 12 pounds
of crumb rubber used in a paving project by a public agency. The
bill would specify selection procedures if the grant requests exceed
the  money allocated   moneys appropriated 
.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation:  no   yes
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 42872.1 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   42872.1.  (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as
the Rubberized Asphalt Concrete Market Development Act.
   (b) In accordance with the tire recycling program authorized by
Section 42872, the department shall award grants in the following
manner:
   (1) To cities, counties, and other local governmental agencies for
the funding of public works projects that utilize rubberized asphalt
concrete.
   (2) To state and local governmental agencies, including regional
park districts, for the funding of disability access projects at
 parks,   parks  and Class I bikeways as
defined in subdivision (a) of Section 890.4, relative to projects
that utilize rubberized asphalt concrete.
   (c)  The department shall annually expend  
On January 1, 2014, and January 1 of each year thereafter, the
Controller shall transfer  ten million dollars ($10,000,000)
from the moneys authorized to be expended for the tire recycling
program, as specified in Section 42889,  upon appropriation
by the Legislature,   to the department  to award
grants pursuant to subdivision (b)  , except as provided in
subdivision (f)  .
   (d) A grant offered pursuant to subdivision (b) shall pay two
dollars ($2) for every 12 pounds of crumb rubber used in a paving
project by a state or local governmental  agency, 
 agency  or a regional park district.
   (e) If the requests for grants under the program established
pursuant to subdivision (b) exceed the  money allocated
  moneys appropriated  pursuant to subdivision (c),
the department shall select randomly from all eligible applicants.

   (f) (1) Notwithstanding subdivision (c), the Controller shall
transfer only five million dollars ($5,000,000) from the moneys
authorized to be expended for the tire recycling program, as
specified in Section 42889, to the department to award grants
pursuant to subdivision (b) for any year that the Department of
Finance determines that the balance of the fund as of January 1
equals ten million dollars ($10,000,000) or less.  
   (2) Of the moneys transferred pursuant to paragraph (1), the
department shall disapprove applications for grants submitted
pursuant to subdivision (b) if there are insufficient moneys in the
fund.