1. As used in this section:
a. "Passenger tire equivalent" means the physical dimensions of a tire which has a rim diameter of sixteen and one-half inches or less.
b. "Site of end use" means a site where whole or processed waste tires are permanently legally disposed of, recycled, or reused.
c. "Tire processor" means a person who reduces waste tires into a processed form suitable for recycling or producing fuel for energy or heat, or uses whole waste tires in any other beneficial use as authorized by the department. "Tire processor" does not mean a person who retreads tires or processes and stores tires.
2. A tire processor who annually processes more than two hundred fifty thousand waste tires, as defined in section 455D.11, or the equivalent, at a processing site as defined in section 455D.11 located within the state may be awarded moneys pursuant to section 455D.11C, subsection 2, from the waste tire management fund of not more than twenty cents per passenger tire equivalent processed and delivered to the site of end use. Moneys of not more than three hundred thousand dollars for such tire processors shall be available in the aggregate in a fiscal year and shall be disbursed by the department upon application and approval to such tire processors. A tire processor shall not receive more than twenty thousand dollars from the waste tire management fund in a fiscal year. A tire processor with a pending enforcement action against the tire processor by the department is ineligible to receive moneys while the enforcement action is pending. A tire processor is encouraged to use moneys awarded under this subsection to lower the rates at which the tire processor sells processed materials.
96 Acts, ch 1117, §6
Referred to in § 455D.11C, 455D.11H
Section is repealed effective July 1, 2002; see § 455D.11H
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