Bill Text: CA AB2576 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Recycling: glass container manufacturers: market development payments.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [AB2576 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2576-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2576	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gray
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Bigelow and Olsen)
   (Coauthor: Senator Galgiani)

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section  39719.5 to the Health and Safety
Code,    40512 to the Public Resources Code, 
relating to  recycling, and making an appropriation therefor.
  recycling. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2576, as amended, Gray. Recycling: glass container
manufacturers: market development payments.
   Existing law establishes the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund as a
special fund in the State Treasury, and requires  that
 all  moneys  moneys, except for fines
and penalties,  collected by the State Air Resources Board
 from the auction or sale of specified greenhouse gas
allowances   as part of a market-based compliance
mechanism to  be deposited in the fund and available 
for appropriation by the Legislature.   upon
appropriation for purposes relating to t   he reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions. 
   This bill would  appropriate $20,000,000 annually
  provide that up to $20,000,000 shall be available,
upon appropriation by the Legislature,  from the Greenhouse Gas
Reduction Fund to the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
for market development payments to glass container manufacturers in
an  unspecified  amount  of $50  per ton of
state-generated cullet, as defined, utilized for manufacturing in
the  state.   state to achieve greenhouse gas
emissions reductions not otherwise required by statute or regulation.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation:  yes   no
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 requires
the State Air Resources Board, pursuant to regulation, to reduce
California greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to minimize the
"leakage" of GHG emissions from California to areas outside of the
state. Regulations adopted by the board classify glass container
manufacturing as an energy intensive and trade exposed industry with
a high risk of leakage.
   (b) Glass container manufacturers currently use approximately
563,000 tons of recycled glass per year. With increased quality
supply, glass manufacturers have the potential to use 755,000 tons
per year.
   (c) Furnace-ready recycled glass, referred to as "cullet," is
expensive and hard to acquire. Single-stream recycling systems result
in low-quality glass that cannot be used in a furnace. Often, this
glass is disposed of in landfills rather than recycled. Glass market
development payments will improve the market for recycled glass and
increase the availability of furnace-ready cullet in California.
   (d) For every six tons of recycled glass used in the manufacturing
process, there is a one ton reduction in GHG emissions. GHG
emissions reductions could reach 34,000 tons per year.
   (e) Glass container manufacturing fits the categories for funding
identified in the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, SB
535 (Chapter 830 of the Statutes of 2012), and the board's scoping
plan for expenditures.
   (f) Glass container manufacturing plants are located in areas of
the state designated by the California Communities Environmental
Health Screening, also known as CalEnviroScreen, as priority
locations for cap and trade investment.
  SEC. 2.  Section  39719.5   40512  is
added to the  Health and Safety   Public
Resources  Code, to read:
    39719.5.   40512.    Twenty
  Up to twenty  million dollars ($20,000,000)
 is hereby appropriated annually   shall be
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature,  from the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, established pursuant to Section
16428.8 of the Government Code, to the  Department of
Resources Recycling and Recovery   department  for
market development payments to glass container manufacturers in an
amount up to  __   fifty  dollars 
($__)   ($50)  per ton of state-generated cullet,
as defined in Section  14509.3 of the Public Resources Code,
  14509.3,  utilized for manufacturing in the
 state.   state to achieve greenhouse gas
emissions reductions not otherwise required by statute or regulation.