Bill Text: IA HF355 | 2015-2016 | 86th General Assembly | Introduced

Iowa House Bill 355 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to food waste landfill diversion demonstration projects and making an appropriation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-25 - Subcommittee, Bacon, Fisher, and Thede. H.J. 415. [HF355 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2015-HF355-Introduced.html

House File 355 - Introduced




                                 HOUSE FILE       
                                 BY  ISENHART

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to food waste landfill diversion demonstration
  2    projects and making an appropriation.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
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  1  1    Section 1.  FOOD WASTE LANDFILL DIVERSION DEMONSTRATION
  1  2 PROJECTS.
  1  3    1.  There is appropriated from the general fund of the state
  1  4 to the department of natural resources for the fiscal year
  1  5 beginning July 1, 2015, and ending June 30, 2016, the following
  1  6 amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be used for the
  1  7 purposes designated:
  1  8    For providing grants to solid waste agencies for food waste
  1  9 landfill diversion demonstration projects:
  1 10 .................................................. $    200,000
  1 11    2.  Demonstration project grants shall be used to subsidize
  1 12 municipal or private solid waste agencies to partially
  1 13 offset the costs of collecting and transporting food waste
  1 14 for composting or anaerobic digestion until route density or
  1 15 collected tonnage allow the collection and transportation to
  1 16 become economically self=supporting.
  1 17    3.  A demonstration project grant awarded pursuant to
  1 18 this section shall be for a demonstration project to divert
  1 19 commercial, institutional, and industrial food waste from a
  1 20 landfill.  Under a competitive application process, a solid
  1 21 waste agency may apply for a grant amount of up to 50 percent
  1 22 of the project costs, as matched by a cash contribution from
  1 23 the solid waste agency, not to exceed $50,000.  At least two
  1 24 grants shall be awarded to applicants with an existing food
  1 25 waste composting facility or an anaerobic digestion facility
  1 26 targeting food residuals in their territory and at least
  1 27 two grants shall be awarded to applicants establishing such
  1 28 facilities on or after July 1, 2015.
  1 29                           EXPLANATION
  1 30 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
  1 31 the explanation's substance by the members of the general assembly.
  1 32    This bill relates to food waste landfill diversion
  1 33 demonstration projects.
  1 34    The bill appropriates $200,000 to the department of natural
  1 35 resources for providing grants for food waste landfill
  2  1 diversion demonstration projects.  A grant shall be for a
  2  2 demonstration project to divert commercial, institutional, and
  2  3 industrial food waste from a landfill.  Under a competitive
  2  4 application process, a solid waste agency may apply for a grant
  2  5 amount of up to 50 percent of the project costs, as matched by
  2  6 a cash contribution from the solid waste agency, not to exceed
  2  7 $50,000.  At least two grants shall be awarded to applicants
  2  8 with an existing food waste composting facility or an anaerobic
  2  9 digestion facility targeting food residuals in their territory
  2 10 and at least two grants shall be awarded to applicants
  2 11 establishing such facilities on or after July 1, 2015.
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