42649.88.
(a) For purposes of this section, “organic waste” includes all of the following:(1) The materials identified in subdivision (d) of Section 42649.8.
(2) The materials identified in subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 40106.
(3) Biosolids, as defined in paragraph (9) of subdivision (a) of Section 17852 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations, or any successor regulation.
(4) Livestock waste.
(b) (1) The Natural Resources Agency, in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Food and Agriculture, the department, and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and in consultation with stakeholders and relevant permitting agencies, shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, by January 1, 2023, a report that provides an implementation strategy that identifies the specific measures needed to achieve the state’s organic waste, and related climate change and air quality, mandates, goals, and targets. The Natural Resources Agency may, by July 1, 2022, contract with outside entities, including the California Council on Science and Technology and the University of California, to prepare the report.
(2) The report shall do all of the following:
(A) Include a science-based assessment of the benefits and impacts of different end uses of organic waste.
(B) Identify regulatory conflicts or barriers that need to be addressed to accelerate beneficial reuse of organic waste.
(C) Specify potential funding sources and incentives, opportunities for regional and cross-sector coordination, and other measures needed to meet the state’s organic waste goals with interagency support and coordination.
(3) To the extent feasible, the report shall reflect input from, and consider the recommendations of, the Natural
Resources Agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, department, and the Department of Food and Agriculture.
(4) The Natural Resources Agency, or the outside entity contracted to create the report, shall do both of the following:
(A) Conduct at least one public meeting to consider public comments.
(B) Provide public notice of the public meeting, and publish the draft implementation strategy on its internet website, at least 30 days before the public meeting.
(c) The implementation strategy shall also include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Recommendations on policy and funding support for the beneficial reuse of organic waste, consistent with the following:
(A) The short-lived climate pollutant strategy implemented pursuant to Sections 39730.5 and 39730.6 of the Health and Safety Code, and Chapter 13.1 (commencing with Section 42652) and implementing regulations.
(B) The 2030 greenhouse gas emissions limit adopted pursuant to Section 38566 of the Health and Safety Code.
(C) Actions to achieve the attainment of state and federal ambient
air quality standards, including, but not limited to, actions related to the control of organic waste air emissions and actions required pursuant to Chapter 136 of the Statutes of 2017.
(D) The requirements of Article 16 (commencing with Section 399.11) of Chapter 2.3 of Part 1 of Division 1 of the Public Utilities Code.
(E) The “California Forest Carbon Plan: Managing Our Forest Landscapes In A Changing Climate,” prepared by the Natural Resources Agency, the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, and the Department of Food and Agriculture, and issued in May 2018.
(F) The goal of reducing at least 5,000,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year through the development and application of
compost on working lands established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 42649.87.
(2) Consideration of the beneficial uses of organic waste in comparison to the alternative fate of the organic waste, including all of the following:
(A) The availability of organic waste in the forestry, agriculture, and solid waste sectors.
(B) Beneficial alternatives to the burning, leaving in place, landfilling, or other current waste disposal practices.
(C) Net impacts on all of the following:
(i) Carbon emissions, on a life-cycle basis, including the potential for net carbon negative emissions.
(ii) Air quality, including local impacts on areas designated as being in nonattainment of state and federal ambient air quality standards.
(iii) Forest health, soil health, soil carbon sequestration, and erosion control.
(iv) Stormwater infiltration and runoff reduction, groundwater recharge and quality, irrigation reduction, surface water pollution, and water supply for each alternative end use.
(v) Job creation, economic development, community-scale empowerment and economic justice, and local revenues, and where those impacts would accrue.
(vi) Community resilience, including resilience against
climate change, catastrophic wildfires, power disruptions, and other impacts.
(vii) Food waste, food insecurity for humans, and the cost and availability of appropriate feed for pets, livestock, aquaculture, and other uses.
(D) Use of organic waste for renewable energy production.
(3) Identification of obstacles to the beneficial reuse of organic waste management. waste.
(4) Activities undertaken by the private and public sectors to address the obstacles identified pursuant to
paragraph (3).
(d) (1) The report required pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be submitted to the Legislature in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2027.