BILL NUMBER: SB 970	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 10, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Leyva

                        FEBRUARY 8, 2016

   An act to amend Section 42999 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to greenhouse gases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 970, as amended, Leyva. Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund: grant
program: recyclable materials.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The act authorizes the state board to include the use of market-based
compliance mechanisms. Existing law requires all moneys, except for
fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the
market-based compliance mechanism to be deposited in the Greenhouse
Gas Reduction Fund and to be available upon appropriation by the
Legislature.
   Existing law requires certain moneys appropriated by the
Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to be used by the
Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery for a grant program to
provide financial assistance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by
promoting in-state development of infrastructure to process organic
and other recyclable materials into new, value-added products.
   This bill would require the department, in awarding a grant 
for organics composting or anaerobic digestion  under the
program, to consider, among other things, the amount of greenhouse
gas emissions reductions that may result from the project and the
amount of organic material that may be diverted from landfills as a
result of the project.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 42999 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
   42999.  (a) Any additional funds appropriated by the Legislature
from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, established pursuant to
Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, to the department shall be
used to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting in-state development of
infrastructure to process organics and other recyclable materials
into new value-added products. The moneys shall be expended
consistent with the requirements of Article 9.7 (commencing with
Section 16428.8) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code and Chapter 4.1 (commencing with Section 39710)
of Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (b) From moneys appropriated for purposes of this section, the
department shall provide grants, incentive payments, contracts, or
other funding mechanisms to public and private entities located in
the state for any of the following:
   (1) Organics composting.
   (2) Anaerobic digestion.
   (3) Recyclable material manufacturing infrastructure projects or
other related activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
   (c) For purposes of this section, eligible infrastructure projects
that reduce greenhouse gas emissions include, but are not limited
to, any of the following:
   (1) Capital investments in new facilities and increased throughput
at existing facilities for activities, such as converting windrow
composting to aerated-static-pile composting to use food waste as
feedstock.
   (2) Designing and constructing anaerobic digestion facilities to
produce biofuels and bioenergy.
   (3) Designing and constructing facilities for processing
recyclable materials.
   (d) In awarding a grant  for organics composting or anaerobic
digestion  pursuant to this section, the department shall
consider all of the following:
   (1) The amount of greenhouse gas emissions reductions that may
result from the project.
   (2) The amount of organic material that may be diverted from
landfills as a result of the project.
   (3) If, and how, the project may benefit disadvantaged
communities.
   (4) Project readiness and permitting that the project may require.

   (5) Air and water quality benefits that the project may provide.