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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1970
To establish a scrap tire trust fund to provide financial assistance to States
to eliminate current scrap tire piles and to manage the future disposal
of scrap tires.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 4, 1993
Mr. SLATTERY (for himself, Mr. MCMILLAN, and Mr. SAWYER) introduced the
following bill; which was referred jointly to the Committees on Energy
and Commerce and Ways and Means
A BILL
To establish a scrap tire trust fund to provide financial
assistance to States to eliminate current scrap tire piles
and to manage the future disposal of scrap tires.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SCRAP TIRE TRUST FUND.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There is established in the
Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be
known as the ‘‘Scrap Tire Trust Fund’’ (hereinafter
in this section referred to as the ‘‘Trust Fund’’).
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(2) ACCOUNTS
IN
TRUST
FUND.—The Trust
Fund shall consist of—
(A) a Scrap Tire Reduction Account; and
(B) a Scrap Tire Recycling Account.
Each such Account shall consist of such amounts as
may be appropriated to it as provided in this section.
(b) SCRAP TIRE REDUCTION ACCOUNT.—
(1) APPROPRIATION TO ACCOUNT.—There are
hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treas-
ury not otherwise appropriated, to the Scrap Tire
Reduction Account amounts equivalent to the follow-
ing amounts:
(A) 87 percent of amounts received during
1993 through 1997 from the fees imposed by
subsection (d).
(B) 77 percent of amounts received during
1998 through 2001 from such fees.
(C) 67 percent of amounts received during
2002 through 2004 from such fees.
(2) EXPENDITURES FROM ACCOUNT.—Amounts
in the Scrap Tire Reduction Account shall be avail-
able, as provided by appropriation Acts—
(A) for making expenditures to provide fi-
nancial assistance to States for purposes of con-
ducting surveys of current scrap tire piles, de-
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(A) for making expenditures to provide fi-
nancial assistance to States to carry out the
portion of State tire management plans relating
to the current and future disposal of scrap
tires, 
including 
recycling, 
recovering, 
and
reusing new scrap tires; and
(B) for payment of expenses for adminis-
tration of such financial assistance (but not in
excess of 5 percent of the Account may be used
for such purpose).
(d) IMPOSITION AND RATE OF FEE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall im-
pose and collect a fee of $.85 on each new tire sold
by the manufacturer or importer, regardless of in-
tended use, during the period beginning on January
1, 1993, and ending on December 31, 2004. The fee
shall be due and payable by the manufacturer or im-
porter sixty days after sale of the tire. The Adminis-
trator shall deposit amounts received from such fees
into the General Fund of the Treasury.
(2) TIRES ON IMPORTED ARTICLES.—For pur-
poses of paragraph (1), if an article imported in the
United States is equipped with tires—
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(A) the importer of the article shall be
treated as the importer of the tires with which
such article is equipped; and
(B) the sale of the article by the importer
thereof shall be treated as the sale of the tires
with which such article is equipped.
This paragraph shall not apply with respect to the
sale of an automobile bus chassis or an automobile
bus body.
(e) TRANSFERS TO TRUST FUND.—The amounts ap-
propriated by subsections (b)(1) and (c)(1) shall be trans-
ferred at least monthly from the General Fund of the
Treasury to the Trust Fund on the basis of estimates
made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts
referred to in such subsections. Adjustments shall be made
in the amount subsequently transferred to the extent prior
estimates were in excess of or less than the amounts re-
quired to be transferred.
(f) INVESTMENT.—(1) The Secretary of the Treasury
shall invest such portion of the Trust Fund as is not, in
his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such
investments may be made only in interest-bearing obliga-
tions of the United States and may be acquired—
(A) on original issue at the issue price; or
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(B) by purchase of outstanding obligations at
the market price.
(2) Any obligation acquired by the Trust Fund may
be sold by the Secretary at the market price.
(3) The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale
or redemption of, any obligations held in the Trust Fund
shall be credited to and form a part of the Trust Fund.
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