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(a) To the extent feasible and cost effective, the department and a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway shall use advanced technologies and material recycling techniques that reduce the cost of maintaining and rehabilitating streets and highways and that exhibit reduced levels of greenhouse gas emissions through material choice and construction method.(b) Beginning January 1, 2024, a local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway shall, to the extent feasible and cost effective, apply standard specifications that allow for the use of recycled materials in streets and highways.
(c) Beginning January 1, 2024, and until January 1, 2027, the
standard specifications described in subdivision (b) shall allow recycled materials at or above the level allowed in the department’s standard specifications that went into effect on October 22, 2018, for all of the following:
(1) Recycled base and subbase materials as set forth in Sections 25-1.02 and 26-1.02 of the department’s standard specifications.
(2) Reclaimed asphalt pavement and other materials in asphalt as set forth in Section 39-2.02B of the department’s standard specifications.
(3) Reclaimed aggregate, fly ash, returned plastic concrete, and other materials in concrete as set forth in Sections 90-1.02, 90-2.02, and 90-9 of the department’s standard specifications.
(d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
(1) “Department” means the Department of Transportation.
(2) (A) “Local agency that has jurisdiction over a street or highway” does not include any city whose revenue is equal to or less than 0.02 percent of the total of all California city revenues, or any county whose revenue is equal to or less than 0.10 percent of the total of all California county revenues, as posted for the most recent fiscal year on the Local Government Annual Financial Data internet website or a successor internet website.
(B) If information regarding a city or county’s revenue is not available for the most recent fiscal year because the city or county failed to furnish a financial transactions report pursuant to Section 53891 of the Government Code, the city or county’s revenues from the most recent fiscal year for which
revenue information is available on the internet website for the city or county relative to the total of all city or county revenues, as applicable, in that year shall be used for purposes of subparagraph (A).
(3) “Local Government Annual Financial Data internet website” means the internet website maintained by the Controller that displays, among other things, information regarding local government revenue and expenditures published pursuant to Section 12463 of the Government Code based on data in financial transactions reports furnished to the Controller pursuant to Section 53891 of the Government Code.