Bill Text: CA SB1046 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1046

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Bill Title: Organic waste reduction: program environmental impact report: small and medium compostable material handling facilities or operations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. [SB1046 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1046-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1046

Introduced by Senator Laird

February 07, 2024

An act to add Section 42656 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1046, as introduced, Laird. Organic waste reduction: program environmental impact report: composting facilities.

Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in consultation with the State Air Resources Board, to adopt regulations to achieve certain reduction targets in the organic waste disposed in landfills and to analyze the progress that the waste sector, state government, and local governments have made in achieving those reduction targets, as provided. Existing law authorizes the department to provide incentives to facilitate progress towards the reduction targets if the department determines that sufficient progress has not been made.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect, as provided. Existing regulations describe the advantages and uses of a program environmental impact report.

This bill would require the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to prepare a program environmental impact report that streamlines the process with which jurisdictions can develop and site small and medium compost facilities for processing organic waste, as specified.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 42656 is added to the Public Resources Code, immediately following Section 42655, to read:

42656.

The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery shall develop a program environmental impact report pursuant to Section 15168 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations to streamline the permitting process for small and medium compost facilities in the state. The program environmental impact report shall streamline the process with which jurisdictions can develop and site small and medium compost facilities for specified material types to ensure organic material in the state is processed to its highest and best use.