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  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-five If 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 agency and.  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-five If 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 subtract fifty sixty 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 35    One dollar and seventy-five cents of After 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-five One 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 15    The remaining one One 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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