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PAG LIN 1 1 Section 1. Section 455B.310, subsection 4, Code 2001, is 1 2 amended to read as follows: 1 3 4.Ninety-fiveIf a planning area achieves the fifty 1 4 percent waste reduction goal provided in section 455D.3, 1 5 ninety-five cents of the tonnage fee shall be retained by a 1 6 city, county, or public or private agencyand. If the fifty 1 7 percent waste reduction goal has not been met, one dollar and 1 8 twenty cents of the tonnage fee shall be retained by a city, 1 9 county, or public or private agency. Moneys retained by a 1 10 city, county, or public or private agency shall be used as 1 11 follows: 1 12 a. To meet comprehensive planning requirements of section 1 13 455B.306, the development of a closure or postclosure plan, 1 14 the development of a plan for the control and treatment of 1 15 leachate including the preparation of facility plans and 1 16 detailed plans and specifications, and the preparation of a 1 17 financial plan. 1 18 b.Forty-fiveIf a planning area achieves the fifty 1 19 percent waste reduction goal provided in section 455D.3, 1 20 forty-five cents of the retained funds shall be used for 1 21 implementing waste volume reduction and recycling requirements 1 22 of comprehensive plans filed under section 455B.306. If the 1 23 fifty percent waste reduction goal has not been met, seventy 1 24 cents of the retained funds shall be used for implementing 1 25 waste volume reduction and recycling requirements of 1 26 comprehensive plans filed under section 455B.306. The funds 1 27 shall be distributed to a city, county, or public agency 1 28 served by the sanitary disposal project. Fees collected by a 1 29 private agency which provides for the final disposal of solid 1 30 waste shall be remitted to the city, county, or public agency 1 31 served by the sanitary disposal project. However, if a 1 32 private agency is designated to develop and implement the 1 33 comprehensive plan pursuant to section 455B.306, fees under 1 34 this paragraph shall be retained by the private agency. 1 35 c. For other environmental protection activities. 2 1 d. Each sanitary landfill owner or operator shall submit a 2 2 return to the department identifying the use of all fees 2 3 retained under this section including the manner in which the 2 4 fees were distributed. The return shall be submitted 2 5 concurrently with the return required under subsection 7. 2 6 Sec. 2. Section 455D.3, subsection 3, paragraph a, 2 7 unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 2001, is amended to read as 2 8 follows: 2 9 If at any time the department determines that a planning 2 10 area has met or exceeded the twenty-five percent goal, but has 2 11 not met or exceeded the fifty percent goal, a planning area 2 12 shall subtractfiftysixty cents from the total amount of the 2 13 tonnage fee imposed pursuant to section 455B.310. If at any 2 14 time the department determines that a planning area has met or 2 15 exceeded the fifty percent goal, a planning area shall 2 16 subtract fifty cents from the total amount of the tonnage fee 2 17 imposed pursuant to section 455B.310. The reduction in 2 18 tonnage fees pursuant to this paragraph shall be taken from 2 19 that portion of the tonnage fees which would have been 2 20 allocated for funding alternatives to landfills pursuant to 2 21 section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph "a", subparagraph 2 22 (1). 2 23 Sec. 3. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 2 24 subparagraph (1), unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2001, is 2 25 amended to read as follows: 2 26One dollar and seventy-five cents ofAfter the one dollar 2 27 and fifty-five cents is allocated pursuant to subparagraph 2 28 (2), the remaining moneys from the tonnage fee shall be used 2 29 for funding alternatives to landfills and shall be allocated 2 30 as follows: 2 31 Sec. 4. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 2 32 subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (b), Code 2001, is 2 33 amended to read as follows: 2 34 (b)Sixty-fiveOne hundred sixty-five thousand dollars to 2 35 the waste management assistance division of the department to 3 1 be used for the by-products and waste search service at the 3 2 university of northern Iowa. 3 3 Sec. 5. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 3 4 subparagraph (2), unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2001, is 3 5 amended to read as follows: 3 6The remaining oneOne dollar and fifty-five cents shall be 3 7 used as follows: 3 8 Sec. 6. This Act, with the exception of section 4 of this 3 9 Act, shall take effect July 1, 2002. 3 10 EXPLANATION 3 11 This bill amends provisions of the Code relating to solid 3 12 waste tonnage fees. 3 13 The bill increases the amount a city, county, or public or 3 14 private agency retains from the tonnage fee from $.95 to $1.20 3 15 if the 50 percent waste reduction goal has not been met by the 3 16 solid waste planning area. The bill provides that the 3 17 additional $.25 retained shall be used for implementing waste 3 18 volume reduction and recycling requirements of a comprehensive 3 19 plan. 3 20 The bill provides that if a planning area meets or exceeds 3 21 the 25 percent waste reduction goal, but does not meet or 3 22 exceed the 50 percent goal, the planning area may retain an 3 23 additional $.10 of the tonnage fee. 3 24 The bill provides that, of the tonnage fee moneys deposited 3 25 in the solid waste account of the groundwater protection fund, 3 26 $1.55 of the tonnage fee is to be used by the department of 3 27 natural resources for various purposes, by the university of 3 28 northern Iowa to develop and maintain the Iowa waste reduction 3 29 center for the safe and economic management of solid waste and 3 30 hazardous substances, and by the department of public health. 3 31 The bill provides that the remaining moneys from the tonnage 3 32 fees shall be for funding alternatives to landfills. The bill 3 33 increases, from $65,000 to $165,000, the amount of the tonnage 3 34 fees used by the waste management assistance division of the 3 35 department of natural resources for by-products and waste 4 1 search service at the university of northern Iowa. 4 2 With the exception of the provision in the bill relating to 4 3 increase in tonnage fee moneys used by the waste management 4 4 assistance division of the department of natural resources for 4 5 by-products and waste search service at the university of 4 6 northern Iowa, the remainder of the bill takes effect July 1, 4 7 2002. 4 8 LSB 2005HV 79 4 9 tm/cls/14
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