House
Study
Bill
208
-
Introduced
HOUSE
FILE
_____
BY
(PROPOSED
COMMITTEE
ON
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION
BILL
BY
CHAIRPERSON
JONES)
A
BILL
FOR
An
Act
relating
to
the
development
of
a
hub
and
spoke
recycling
1
program
and
providing
for
an
allocation
of
moneys
from
the
2
groundwater
protection
fund.
3
BE
IT
ENACTED
BY
THE
GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
OF
THE
STATE
OF
IOWA:
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Section
1.
Section
455E.11,
subsection
2,
paragraph
a,
1
subparagraph
(1),
Code
2015,
is
amended
by
adding
the
following
2
new
subparagraph
division:
3
NEW
SUBPARAGRAPH
DIVISION
.
(0a)
(i)
For
the
fiscal
year
4
beginning
July
1,
2015,
and
ending
June
30,
2016,
not
more
5
than
two
hundred
fifty
thousand
dollars
to
the
department
6
for
purposes
of
developing
a
hub
and
spoke
recycling
program
7
to
create
regional
recycling
processing
centers
in
large
8
communities
and
encourage
small
communities
to
deliver
9
recyclables
to
the
centers.
10
(ii)
Each
fiscal
year
for
the
period
beginning
July
1,
11
2016,
and
ending
June
30,
2020,
not
more
than
one
million
five
12
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
the
department
for
implementation
13
of
the
hub
and
spoke
recycling
program.
14
EXPLANATION
15
The
inclusion
of
this
explanation
does
not
constitute
agreement
with
16
the
explanation’s
substance
by
the
members
of
the
general
assembly.
17
This
bill
provides
for
funding
to
the
department
of
natural
18
resources
from
the
solid
waste
alternatives
program
to
create
19
a
hub
and
spoke
recycling
program.
The
program
is
to
create
20
regional
recycling
processing
centers
in
large
communities,
21
or
“hubs”,
and
encourage
small
communities,
or
“spokes”,
to
22
deliver
recyclables
to
the
centers.
The
bill
allocates
to
the
23
department
from
the
solid
waste
account
of
the
groundwater
24
protection
fund
created
in
Code
section
455E.11,
$250,000
in
25
the
fiscal
year
beginning
July
1,
2015,
and
ending
June
30,
26
2016,
to
develop
the
program,
and
$1.5
million
in
each
fiscal
27
year
for
the
period
beginning
July
1,
2016,
and
ending
June
30,
28
2020,
to
implement
the
program.
The
environmental
protection
29
commission
has
authority
to
adopt
administrative
rules
to
30
implement
Code
chapter
455E.
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