Senate Study Bill 3231





                                       SENATE FILE       
                                       BY  (PROPOSED COMMITTEE ON
                                            NATURAL RESOURCES AND
                                            ENVIRONMENT BILL BY
                                            CO=CHAIRPERSON BLACK)


    Passed Senate, Date               Passed House,  Date             
    Vote:  Ayes        Nays           Vote:  Ayes        Nays         
                 Approved                            

                                      A BILL FOR

  1 An Act relating to combustion of solid waste with energy
  2    recovery.
  3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
  4 TLSB 6543SK 81
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  1  1    Section 1.  Section 455B.301A, subsection 1, paragraph c,
  1  2 Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1  3    c.  Other approved techniques of solid waste management
  1  4 including, but not limited to, combustion Combustion with
  1  5 energy recovery,.
  1  6    d.  Other approved techniques of solid waste management
  1  7 including but not limited to combustion for waste disposal,
  1  8 and disposal in sanitary landfills.
  1  9    Sec. 2.  Section 455D.3, subsection 1, unnumbered paragraph
  1 10 2, Code 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  1 11    Notwithstanding section 455D.1, subsection 6, facilities
  1 12 which employ combustion of solid waste with energy recovery
  1 13 and refuse=derived fuel, which are included in an approved
  1 14 comprehensive plan, and which were in operation prior to July
  1 15 1, 1989, may include these processes in the definition of
  1 16 recycling for the purpose of meeting the state goal if at
  1 17 least thirty=five percent of the waste reduction goal,
  1 18 required to be met by July 1, 2000, pursuant to this section,
  1 19 is met through volume reduction at the source and recycling
  1 20 and reuse, as established pursuant to section 455B.301A,
  1 21 subsection 1, paragraphs "a" and "b".
  1 22                           EXPLANATION
  1 23    This bill relates to combustion of solid waste with energy
  1 24 recovery.
  1 25    Currently, a waste management hierarchy in descending order
  1 26 of preference is established as the solid waste management
  1 27 policy of the state.  The bill places combustion with energy
  1 28 recovery as a higher preference above other approved
  1 29 techniques of solid waste management, including but not
  1 30 limited to combustion for waste disposal and disposal in
  1 31 sanitary landfills.
  1 32    Currently, facilities which employ combustion of solid
  1 33 waste with energy recovery and refuse=derived fuel, which are
  1 34 included in an approved comprehensive plan, and which were in
  1 35 operation prior to July 1, 1989, may include these processes
  2  1 in the definition of "recycling" for the purpose of meeting
  2  2 solid waste reduction goals if certain criteria are met.  The
  2  3 bill eliminates the requirement that such facilities must have
  2  4 been in operation prior to July 1, 1989.
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