Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06211988 - IO.2 TO: WARD OF SUPERVISORS I.O. 2 FROM: C Itra INTERNAL OPERATIONS COMMITTEE Cosa DATE'. June 13 , 1988 CaJ* SUBJECT: Recycling Legislation SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION RECOMMENDATIONS: 1. Support SB 2113 (Montoya and Kopp) which establishes a 200 goal for recycling programs and requires the preparation and submission of county and city recycling plans. 2. Support AB 3298 (Killea and Cortese) if amended to vest jurisdiction in the California Waste Management Board rather than the Department of Conservation, delete the exclusion of waste-to-energy fuels in calculating the reduction in the waste stream, delete the need to establish guidelines for 50% diversion of, the waste stream, and delete the penalty assessment for late plans or failure to achieve goals. 3 . Emphasize that the Board of Supervisors supports minimum goals which are at least as high as the County' s current goal, and that the Board' s support for SB 2113 in no way is. intended to imply that the County's goals should be lowered to the 20% goal established in the bill. 4. Request the County Administrator to ask the authors of both SB 2113 and AB 3298 to amend their bills to permit the use of fees raised in the recycling plan to be used for solid waste public education programs as well as other elements of the preparation and implementation of the recycling plan. BACKGROUND: Our Committee asked staff from the Community Development Department to review pending legislation dealing with solid waste recycling and to recommend positions on pending legislation. SB 2113 does the following: o Establishes legislative findings regarding the value of recycling in reducing the amount of solid waste which must be disposed of in landfills. o Makes the California Waste Management Board responsible for implementation of the bill. CONTINUED ON ATTACHMENT: _ YES SIGNATURE: RECOMMENDATION OF COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR X RECOMMENDATION OF BOARD COMMITTEE JL APPROVE OTHER _ SIGNATURE(S1: =W. McPeak Tom Torlakson ACTION OF BOARD ON June 21 , 1988 APPROVED AS RECOMMENDED X OTHER VOTE OF SUPERVISORS I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIS IS A TRUE X UNANIMOUS (ABSENT AND CORRECT COPY OF AN ACTION TAKEN AYES; NOES: AND ENTERED ON THE MINUTES OF THE BOARD ABSENT: ABSTAIN: OF SUPERVISORS ON THE DATE SHOWN. County Administrator ATTESTED *?Ill /fi 8f cc: Director, Community Development Senator Joseph Montoya P IL BATCHELOR, CLERK OF THE BOARD OF Senator Quentin Kopp SUPERVISORS AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR Assemblywoman Lucy Killea Assemblyman Dominic Cortese BY_P4VAO&rr�� ,DEPUTY M382/7-83 Ralph Heim, Jackson/Barish Page 2 o Requires development of county and city recycling plans which must be integrated into the county solid waste management plan. The cities which choose to prepare their own recycling plans must adopt such plans by January 1, 1990 . The county must then prepare and adopt a plan by January 1, 1991 to include all areas of the county except those cities which chose to adopt their own plans. o The recycling plan must include the following: designation of a county recycling coordinator; a study of the composition of the total solid waste stream. The .goal is to recycle 200 of the total waste stream. The composition study must be completed by January 1, 1993 . o The plan must also designate those materials that are to be recycled and the programs which will be used to achieve the 20% goal. o The plan must also include a detailed budget for the recycling programs and a description of the fees to be charged to cover the cost of the program. AB 3298 is similar to SB 2113 except in the following respects: 1. Responsibility is placed in the Department of Conservation rather than the California Waste Management Board. 2. The recycling goal is a 25% reduction within three years. 3 . The bill specifically excludes waste-to-energy fuel as a part of the methods to achieve the 25% goal. 4. The recycling plan is to be submitted when the first revision is made to the solid waste management plan after January 1, 1990, but in no case later than December 31, 1992. 5. The bill requires the Department of Conservation to determine guidelines by July 1, 1989 on how a 25% diversion of the waste stream can be achieved, and by January 1, 1991 on how the 50% diversion of the waste stream can be achieved. Staff point out that it will be very confusing to deal with the Department of Conservation on the recycling portion of the solid waste management plan when the California Waste Management Board is responsible for all other elements of the solid waste management plan. Staff also believes that a 50% diversion of the waste stream is unrealistic. Staff also points out that waste-to-energy should be considered a viable method of reducing the waste stream and, therefore, should not be excluded as one way to achieve a 25% goal. Our Committee believes that the County' s current goals should serve as the minimum for this County. We believe that a 25% diversion of the waste stream is realistic and, therefore, Page 3 although we are recommending support for SB 2113 , we wish to make it clear that we do not endorse any goal lower than that presently established for this County. SB 2113 passed the Senate Local Government Committee June 15 by a vote of 6: 0 and is currently pending in the Senate Appropriations Committee. AB 3298 passed the Assembly Natural Resources Committee by a vote of 8 : 4 on April 14, and the Assembly Ways and Means Committee by a vote of 14: 8 on June 9. AB 3298 is currently pending on the second reading file on the Assembly floor.