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California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 513

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 and repeal Section 42872.1 of the Public Resources Code, relating to tire begin delete recycling, and making an appropriation therefor end delete begin insert recycling end insert .

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 513, as amended, Frazier. Tire recycling program: rubberized asphalt.

The California Tire Recycling 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 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. Existing law requires the moneys in the fund, except as specified, to be appropriated to the department in the annual Budget Act in a manner consistent with the department’s 5-year plan.

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 would require the department to award these grants in the amount of $2 for every 12 pounds of crumb rubber used in a public works or disability access project, but would authorize the department to adjust this rate if it finds that the adjusted amount would further the purposes of the begin insert tire recycling end insert act.

begin delete The bill would, in addition to the expenditures authorized by existing law, annually appropriate $10,000,000 for each fiscal year, commencing with the 2014-15 fiscal year, to the department from the fees deposited in the fund, to award those grants. end delete The bill would make the act inoperative on June 30, 2019, and would repeal the act on January 1, 2020.

Vote: majority. Appropriation:  begin delete yes end delete begin insert no end insert . 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
and Class I bikeways as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 890.4,
relative to projects that utilize rubberized asphalt concrete.

(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraph begin delete (1) end delete begin insert (2) end insert , the department
shall award the grants pursuant to subdivision (b) in the amount
of two dollars ($2) for every 12 pounds of crumb rubber used in
a public works or disability access project by a state or local
governmental agency, including a regional park district.

(2) The department may adjust the amount of grants awarded
pursuant to paragraph (1) to an amount that is greater than, or less
than, two dollars ($2) for every 12 pounds of crumb rubber if the
department finds this adjustment would further the purposes of
this begin delete section end delete begin insert article end insert .

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(d) In addition to the expenditures authorized pursuant to Section
42885.5, the sum of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) is hereby
appropriated for each fiscal year, commencing with the 2014-15
fiscal year, to the department from the fees deposited in the
California Tire Recycling Management Fund pursuant to Section
42885, to award rubberized asphalt concrete grants pursuant to
this section.

(e)

end delete

begin insert (d) end insert  This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2019,
and, as of January 1, 2020, is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2020,
deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and
is repealed.