BILL NUMBER: AB 876	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member McCarty

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 40512 to the Public Resources Code, relating
to solid waste.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 876, as introduced, McCarty. Compostable organics.
   The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is
administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery,
establishes an integrated waste management program. Existing law
requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a
source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste
management plan.
    The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates
the State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The state board is required to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions
level in 1990, to be achieved by 2020, and to adopt rules and
regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible, and
cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
   This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery, in coordination with the State Air Resources Board, to
promote the use of compostable organics for critically needed
alternatives to agricultural amendments and for low-carbon fuel
manufacturing to reduce fugitive methane emissions associated with
landfill and other waste operations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 40512 is added to the Public Resources Code, to
read:
   40512.  The department, in coordination with the State Air
Resources Board, shall promote the use of compostable organics for
critically needed alternatives to agricultural amendments and for
low-carbon fuel manufacturing to reduce fugitive methane emissions
associated with landfill and other waste operations.