BILL ANALYSIS
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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 63
Author: Strickland
Amended: 7/24/09
Vote: 21
SENATE FLOOR : Not relevant
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : Not available
SUBJECT : Budget Act of 2009: Waste Management and
Recycling
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : Assembly Amendments deleted the prior version of
the bill expressing the intent of the Legislature to enact
statutory revisions relating to the 2009 Budget Act.
This bill now creates a new Department of Resources,
Recycling, and Recovery, and reorganizes recycling and
waste functions from the California Integrated Waste
Management Board and the Department of Conservation into
the new department.
ANALYSIS : Pursuant to the Integrated Waste Management
Act of 1989, (Division 30 of the Public Resources Code)
establishes the California Integrated Waste Management
Board (CIWMB) within the California Environmental
Protection Agency which consists of six members and
specifies the duties of the board, including implementation
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and enforcement of the Act. CIWMB's core responsibilities
are implementing the Act including:
1. Enforcing the mandate on local jurisdictions to achieve
and maintain a 50 percent diversion of their solid waste
going to landfills.
2. Providing technical assistance to local jurisdictions to
help them achieve the mandate.
3. Permitting and overseeing, in partnership with local
enforcement agencies, solid waste facilities, including
landfills that manage solid waste, and provide for the
safe disposal of the waste that can not be diverted.
4. Developing markets, in partnership with generators,
businesses, service providers and end-users, for waste
materials.
5. Developing partnerships with other state and federal
agencies, industry groups, environmental organizations,
environmental justice groups, and other stakeholders to
further the goals of the program within the Act.
6. Overseeing the state's Buy Recycled and State Agency
Recycling Campaign that assists state agencies with
their mandate of reducing their waste by 50 percent and
purchasing recycled products.
This bill:
1. Establishes a new Department of Resources, Recycling,
and Recovery within the Natural Resources Agency.
2. Eliminates the CIWMB.
3. Moves the functions and civil service staff of the CIWMB
to a new Department of Resources, Recycling, and
Recovery.
4. Moves the Education and the Environment Initiative from
the CIWMB to the California Environmental Protection
Agency.
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5. Moves recycling activities and civil service staff
working on those recycling activities from the
Department of Conservation to a division within the new
Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery.
6. Allows the Governor to appoint the director of the
Department of Resources, Recycling, and Recovery, who
would be subject to Senate confirmation.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
DLW:mw 7/24/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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