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PAG LIN 1 1 HOUSE FILE 722 1 2 1 3 AN ACT 1 4 RELATING TO TONNAGE FEES AND MONEYS IN THE SOLID WASTE ACCOUNT 1 5 OF THE GROUNDWATER PROTECTION FUND, AND PROVIDING AN 1 6 EFFECTIVE DATE. 1 7 1 8 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 1 9 1 10 Section 1. Section 455B.310, subsection 4, Code 2001, is 1 11 amended to read as follows: 1 12 4.Ninety-fiveIf a planning area achieves the fifty 1 13 percent waste reduction goal provided in section 455D.3, 1 14 ninety-five cents of the tonnage fee shall be retained by a 1 15 city, county, or public or private agencyand. If the fifty 1 16 percent waste reduction goal has not been met, one dollar and 1 17 twenty cents of the tonnage fee shall be retained by a city, 1 18 county, or public or private agency. Moneys retained by a 1 19 city, county, or public or private agency shall be used as 1 20 follows: 1 21 a. To meet comprehensive planning requirements of section 1 22 455B.306, the development of a closure or postclosure plan, 1 23 the development of a plan for the control and treatment of 1 24 leachate including the preparation of facility plans and 1 25 detailed plans and specifications, and the preparation of a 1 26 financial plan. 1 27 b.Forty-fiveIf a planning area achieves the fifty 1 28 percent waste reduction goal provided in section 455D.3, 1 29 forty-five cents of the retained funds shall be used for 1 30 implementing waste volume reduction and recycling requirements 1 31 of comprehensive plans filed under section 455B.306. If the 1 32 fifty percent waste reduction goal has not been met, seventy 1 33 cents of the retained funds shall be used for implementing 1 34 waste volume reduction and recycling requirements of 1 35 comprehensive plans filed under section 455B.306. The funds 2 1 shall be distributed to a city, county, or public agency 2 2 served by the sanitary disposal project. Fees collected by a 2 3 private agency which provides for the final disposal of solid 2 4 waste shall be remitted to the city, county, or public agency 2 5 served by the sanitary disposal project. However, if a 2 6 private agency is designated to develop and implement the 2 7 comprehensive plan pursuant to section 455B.306, fees under 2 8 this paragraph shall be retained by the private agency. 2 9 c. For other environmental protection activities. 2 10 d. Each sanitary landfill owner or operator shall submit a 2 11 return to the department identifying the use of all fees 2 12 retained under this section including the manner in which the 2 13 fees were distributed. The return shall be submitted 2 14 concurrently with the return required under subsection 7. 2 15 Sec. 2. Section 455D.3, subsection 3, paragraph a, 2 16 unnumbered paragraph 2, Code 2001, is amended to read as 2 17 follows: 2 18 If at any time the department determines that a planning 2 19 area has met or exceeded the twenty-five percent goal, but has 2 20 not met or exceeded the fifty percent goal, a planning area 2 21 shall subtractfiftysixty cents from the total amount of the 2 22 tonnage fee imposed pursuant to section 455B.310. If at any 2 23 time the department determines that a planning area has met or 2 24 exceeded the fifty percent goal, a planning area shall 2 25 subtract fifty cents from the total amount of the tonnage fee 2 26 imposed pursuant to section 455B.310. The reduction in 2 27 tonnage fees pursuant to this paragraph shall be taken from 2 28 that portion of the tonnage fees which would have been 2 29 allocated for funding alternatives to landfills pursuant to 2 30 section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph "a", subparagraph 2 31 (1). 2 32 Sec. 3. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 2 33 subparagraph (1), unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2001, is 2 34 amended to read as follows: 2 35One dollar and seventy-five cents ofAfter the one dollar 3 1 and fifty-five cents is allocated pursuant to subparagraph 3 2 (2), the remaining moneys from the tonnage fee shall be used 3 3 for funding alternatives to landfills and shall be allocated 3 4 as follows: 3 5 Sec. 4. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 3 6 subparagraph (1), subparagraph subdivision (b), Code 2001, is 3 7 amended to read as follows: 3 8 (b)Sixty-fiveOne hundred sixty-five thousand dollars to 3 9 the waste management assistance division of the department to 3 10 be used for the by-products and waste search service at the 3 11 university of northern Iowa. 3 12 Sec. 5. Section 455E.11, subsection 2, paragraph a, 3 13 subparagraph (2), unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 2001, is 3 14 amended to read as follows: 3 15The remaining oneOne dollar and fifty-five cents shall be 3 16 used as follows: 3 17 Sec. 6. This Act, with the exception of section 4 of this 3 18 Act, shall take effect July 1, 2002. 3 19 3 20 3 21 3 22 BRENT SIEGRIST 3 23 Speaker of the House 3 24 3 25 3 26 3 27 MARY E. KRAMER 3 28 President of the Senate 3 29 3 30 I hereby certify that this bill originated in the House and 3 31 is known as House File 722, Seventy-ninth General Assembly. 3 32 3 33 3 34 3 35 MARGARET THOMSON 4 1 Chief Clerk of the House 4 2 Approved , 2001 4 3 4 4 4 5 4 6 THOMAS J. VILSACK 4 7 Governor
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