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  1  1                                         HOUSE FILE 2546
  1  2 
  1  3                             AN ACT
  1  4 RELATING TO WASTE TIRES AND TIRE-DERIVED FUELS.
  1  5 
  1  6 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 
  1  7 
  1  8    Section 1.  Section 455D.11A, subsection 3, Code Supplement
  1  9 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 10    3.  Financial assurance instruments may include instruments
  1 11 such as cash or surety bond, a letter of credit in a form
  1 12 prescribed by the department, or a secured trust fund, a
  1 13 corporate guarantee, or a combination of such instruments and
  1 14 guarantees sufficient to satisfy the requirements of
  1 15 subsection 5.  The department may request an annual audit,
  1 16 which shall remain confidential, to be performed by a third
  1 17 party.
  1 18    Sec. 2.  Section 455D.11A, subsection 5, Code Supplement
  1 19 1997, is amended to read as follows:
  1 20    5.  Financial assurance shall be provided in the amounts as
  1 21 follows:
  1 22    a.  For a waste tire collection or processing site
  1 23 initially permitted on or after July 1, 1992, the financial
  1 24 assurance instrument for a waste tire collection site shall
  1 25 provide coverage in an amount which is equivalent to eighty-
  1 26 five thirty-five cents per passenger tire equivalent collected
  1 27 by the site and the prior to July 1, 1998.  The financial
  1 28 assurance instrument for a waste tire processing site shall
  1 29 provide coverage in an amount which is equivalent to eighty-
  1 30 five thirty-five cents per passenger tire equivalent collected
  1 31 for processing by the site which is above the three-day
  1 32 processing supply of tires for the site as determined by the
  1 33 department.  This paragraph shall take effect July 1, 1999.
  1 34    b.  For a waste tire collection or processing site in
  1 35 existence prior to July 1, 1992, a waste tire collection site
  2  1 shall provide a financial assurance instrument in an amount
  2  2 which is eighty-five cents per additional tire collected after
  2  3 July 1, 1992, and a waste tire processing site shall provide a
  2  4 financial assurance instrument in an amount which is eighty-
  2  5 five cents per additional tire collected for processing, above
  2  6 the three-day processing supply of tires for the site as
  2  7 determined by the department, after July 1, 1992.  For a waste
  2  8 tire collection or processing site, the financial assurance
  2  9 instrument for a waste tire collection site shall provide
  2 10 coverage in an amount which is equivalent to eighty-five cents
  2 11 per passenger tire equivalent collected by the site on or
  2 12 after July 1, 1998, and the financial assurance instrument for
  2 13 a waste tire processing site shall provide coverage in an
  2 14 amount which is equivalent to eighty-five cents per passenger
  2 15 tire equivalent collected for processing by the site which is
  2 16 above the three-day processing supply of tires for the site as
  2 17 determined by the department.
  2 18    Sec. 3.  Section 455D.11E, Code 1997, is amended to read as
  2 19 follows:
  2 20    455D.11E  USE BY REGENTS INSTITUTIONS OF WASTE TIRES TO
  2 21 PRODUCE TIRE-DERIVED FUELS AND OTHER BENEFICIAL USES OF WASTE
  2 22 TIRES.
  2 23    State board of regents institutions of higher education,
  2 24 defined in section 262.7, are encouraged to use, to the
  2 25 fullest extent practicable, waste tires for beneficial uses,
  2 26 such as, including, but not limited to, producing the
  2 27 consumption of tire-derived fuels.  Moneys shall be awarded
  2 28 from the waste tire management fund, pursuant to section
  2 29 455D.11C, subsection 2, to such an institution by the
  2 30 department pursuant to section 455D.11C to offset additional
  2 31 fuel, operation, and maintenance costs incurred in generating
  2 32 heat, electricity, or power on a British thermal unit
  2 33 equivalent basis through the use of tire-derived fuel and for
  2 34 the reimbursement of costs associated with mandated air
  2 35 permits, regulatory fees, and emission or fuel testing
  3  1 required to expand the institution's use of tire-derived fuel.
  3  2 Moneys of not more than one hundred thousand dollars may be
  3  3 awarded in the aggregate in a fiscal year to such institutions
  3  4 to offset any increased fuel costs described in this section
  3  5 which are associated with assisting the state's program to
  3  6 dispose of waste tires in an environmentally sound manner, and
  3  7 shall be available only to the extent that such moneys help to
  3  8 reduce the number of waste tires in the state.  Institutions
  3  9 receiving moneys as described in this section shall not be
  3 10 eligible to receive funding available in section 455D.11F.
  3 11    Sec. 4.  Section 455D.11F, Code 1997, is amended to read as
  3 12 follows:
  3 13    455D.11F  TIRE PROCESSORS END-USERS AWARDED MONEYS FOR
  3 14 PROCESSING USING PROCESSED WASTE TIRES.
  3 15    1.  As used in this section:
  3 16    a.  "End-user" means a facility, industry, utility, or
  3 17 operation where processed waste tires are recycled, reused, or
  3 18 consumed for energy recovery.
  3 19    a. b.  "Passenger tire equivalent" means the physical
  3 20 dimensions of a tire which has a rim diameter of sixteen and
  3 21 one-half inches or less.
  3 22    b.  "Site of end use" means a site where whole or processed
  3 23 waste tires are permanently legally disposed of, recycled, or
  3 24 reused.
  3 25    c.  "Tire processor" means a person who reduces waste tires
  3 26 into a processed form suitable for recycling or producing fuel
  3 27 for energy or heat, or uses whole waste tires in any other
  3 28 beneficial use as authorized by the department.  "Tire
  3 29 processor" does not mean a person who retreads tires or
  3 30 processes and stores tires.
  3 31    2.  A tire processor who An end-user that annually
  3 32 processes recycles, reuses, or consumes for energy recovery
  3 33 more than two hundred fifty thousand processed waste tires, as
  3 34 defined in section 455D.11, or the equivalent, at a processing
  3 35 site as defined in section 455D.11 located within the state
  4  1 may be awarded moneys pursuant to section 455D.11C, subsection
  4  2 2, from the waste tire management fund of not more than twenty
  4  3 ten cents per passenger tire equivalent processed and
  4  4 delivered to the site of end use end-user, at a reimbursement
  4  5 rate of no more than fifty percent of the costs incurred or
  4  6 paid per ton by the end-user to receive the processed waste
  4  7 tire materials.  Moneys of not more than three hundred
  4  8 thousand dollars for such tire processors end-user awards
  4  9 shall be available in the aggregate in a fiscal year and shall
  4 10 be disbursed by the department upon application and approval
  4 11 to such tire processors end-users.  A tire processor An end-
  4 12 user shall not receive more than twenty one hundred fifty
  4 13 thousand dollars from the waste tire management fund in a
  4 14 fiscal year.  A tire processor with a pending enforcement
  4 15 action against the tire processor by the department is
  4 16 ineligible to receive moneys while the enforcement action is
  4 17 pending.  A tire processor Funding allocations shall be made
  4 18 proportionately between eligible end-users in the event that
  4 19 funding requests exceed the total annual amount of moneys
  4 20 available.  Moneys shall be available only for waste tires
  4 21 that have been generated from within the state and which are
  4 22 processed by and received from a tire processor located within
  4 23 the state.  An end-user with a pending enforcement action
  4 24 against the end-user by the department relating to sections
  4 25 455D.11 through 455D.11H shall be ineligible for consideration
  4 26 of reimbursement for any processed waste tire materials
  4 27 recycled, reused, or consumed for energy recovery while the
  4 28 enforcement action is pending.  An end-user of processed waste
  4 29 tire material is encouraged to use moneys awarded under this
  4 30 subsection to lower the rates at which the tire processor
  4 31 sells increase the purchase and consumption of processed
  4 32 materials.
  4 33    Sec. 5.  Section 455D.11G, Code 1997, is amended to read as
  4 34 follows:
  4 35    455D.11G  DISPOSAL FEE CHARGED BY RETAIL TIRE DEALER.
  5  1    1.  A retail tire dealer who currently charges a fee
  5  2 relating to disposal of used tires is encouraged to include
  5  3 the fee within the sales price of new tires.  The practice by
  5  4 retail tire dealers of adding the fee as a separate charge on
  5  5 sales invoices is discouraged.
  5  6    2.  Notwithstanding any provision in this chapter, any
  5  7 generator of waste tires who is identified as being a
  5  8 contributor to the materials which are the object of an
  5  9 abatement and who can document full compliance with this
  5 10 chapter and administrative rules adopted pursuant to this
  5 11 chapter in disposing of such waste tires shall not be liable
  5 12 for any of the cost of recovery actions of the abatement.
  5 13    Sec. 6.  APPROPRIATION.  There is appropriated from moneys
  5 14 used for funding alternatives to landfills pursuant to section
  5 15 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph "a", subparagraph (1), to
  5 16 Iowa state university of science and technology for the fiscal
  5 17 year beginning July 1, 1998, and ending June 30, 1999, the
  5 18 following amount, or so much thereof as is necessary, to be
  5 19 used for the purposes designated:
  5 20    For equipment and retrofitting the heating plant at the
  5 21 university to burn tire derived fuel:  
  5 22 .................................................. $    200,000
  5 23    Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys appropriated in this
  5 24 section which remain unexpended or unobligated on June 30,
  5 25 1999, shall not revert to the general fund of the state but
  5 26 shall remain available for expenditure for the same purposes
  5 27 in the succeeding fiscal year.  
  5 28 
  5 29 
  5 30                                                             
  5 31                               RON J. CORBETT
  5 32                               Speaker of the House
  5 33 
  5 34 
  5 35                                                             
  6  1                               MARY E. KRAMER
  6  2                               President of the Senate
  6  3 
  6  4    I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and
  6  5 is known as House File 2546, Seventy-seventh General Assembly.
  6  6 
  6  7 
  6  8                                                             
  6  9                               ELIZABETH ISAACSON
  6 10                               Chief Clerk of the House
  6 11 Approved                , 1998
  6 12 
  6 13 
  6 14                         
  6 15 TERRY E. BRANSTAD
  6 16 Governor
     

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