BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



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          Date of Hearing:   May 18, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                AB 1019 (John A. Perez) - As Amended:  April 14, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Business and 
          Professions  Vote:                            9-0

                        Natural Resources                     9-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires, by January 1, 2014, the Department of 
          General Services (DGS) to ensure postconsumer carpet from state 
          buildings is recycled.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible costs to DGS if any, as this bill simply creates an 
          effective date by which DGS must conduct an activity statute 
          already requires it to take.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  The author reports that, by oversight, last year's 
            AB 2398 (John. A. Perez, Chapter 681, Statutes of 2010), which 
            establishes an extended producer responsibility program for 
            carpets, failed to provide an implementation date by which DGS 
            was to ensure postconsumer carpet from state buildings is 
            recycled.

           2)Background.  According to the Department of Recycling and 
            Resources Recovery's (Calrecycle's) 2008 Statewide Waste 
            Characterization Study, 1.3 million tons of carpet is disposed 
            in California landfills annually, comprising 3.2 percent of 
            all solid waste.  The carpet industry has attempted to address 
            these issues through a voluntary product stewardship program 
            with a goal of diverting 40% of carpet from landfills by 2012, 
            as established with a memorandum of understanding with 
            Calrecycle's predecessor.  However, carpet producers are 








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            failing to meet this goal.  In 2007, carpet was recycled at a 
            rate of 4.7% and diverted from landfill at a rate of 5.3%.  In 
            2008, those rates had fallen slightly to 4.3% and 5.2%, 
            respectively.

           3)Support  .  This bill is supported by the City and County of San 
            Francisco.

           4)There is no formal opposition registered to this bill.  

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081