BILL NUMBER: SB 1026	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER   605
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   OCTOBER 5, 1995
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   OCTOBER 4, 1995
	PASSED THE SENATE   SEPTEMBER 6, 1995
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   SEPTEMBER 1, 1995
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 19, 1995
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 6, 1995

INTRODUCED BY  Senator Dills

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1995

   An act to add an article heading immediately preceding Section
42700 of, and to add Article 2 (commencing with Section 42705) to,
Chapter 14 of Part 3 of Division 30 of, the Public Resources Code,
relating to solid waste.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1026, Dills.  Solid waste:  tire recycling.
   Existing law requires the Director of Transportation, upon
consultation with the California Integrated Waste Management Board,
to review and modify all bid specifications relating to the purchase
of paving materials, using recycled materials, as specified.
   Existing federal law, the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991 requires the Department of Transportation to
meet minimum requirements for asphalt pavement containing recycled
rubber.
   This bill would require the department to request the United
States Department of Transportation to revise those minimum federal
requirements to allow the use of waste tires as fuel for cement
manufacturing plants, as specified, if the department finds that the
use of waste tires for fuel production at cement manufacturing plants
in this state provides a highly valuable method to augment waste
reduction with regard to the recycled rubber requirements of that
federal act.
   The bill would make legislative findings and declarations with
regard to tire-fired kilns.


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


  SECTION 1.  The Department of Transportation shall request the
United States Department of Transportation to revise the minimum
requirements for asphalt pavement containing recycled rubber set
forth in the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(Public Law 102-240) to allow for the use of waste tires as fuel for
cement manufacturing plants in addition to, but not in lieu of,
their use in asphalt pavement containing recycled rubber, if the
department finds that the use of waste tires for fuel production at
cement manufacturing plants in this state provides  a highly valuable
method to augment waste reduction with regard to the recycled rubber
requirements of that federal act.
  SEC. 2.  An article heading is added immediately preceding Section
42700 of Chapter 14 of Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources
Code, to read:

      Article 1.  Recycled Materials

  SEC. 3.  Article 2 (commencing with Section 42705) is added to
Chapter 14 of Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, to
read:

      Article 2.  Tire-fired Kilns

   42705.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows:
   (a) California currently faces a serious problem with respect to
the collection, disposal, and recycling of used tires that are no
longer consumer usable.
   (b) It is estimated that California has an existing tire inventory
of at least 100 million tires, an amount which grows by over 20
million tires per year.
   (c) California has pursued several methods of tire disposal
including, but not limited to, shredding and as an additive to
asphalt for paving material.
   (d) The cement industry in California has implemented a process
that utilizes used tires as fuel for the kilns essential to the
manufacture of cement.
   (e) Used tires utilized as fuel for those kilns are completely
consumed, including the rubber, fiber, and steel ingredients of the
tire.
   (f) The use of used tires in that process benefits California by
reducing reliance on fossil fuel imported from outside the state.
   (g)  The consumption of used tires rather than fossil fuel for the
kilns may reduce air pollution and may contribute to the improvement
of air quality.