Resolve, To Examine Environmental Effects of the Dual Recovery System for Beverage Containers
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 0733
Committee Amendment CA_B_S196 (Senate)

COMMITTEE AMENDMENT" t3 t;. to S.P. 270, L.D. 733, "Resolve, To Examine 
Environmental Effects of the Dual Recovery System for Beverage Containers" 
Amend the resolve by striking out everything after the title and inserting the 
following: 
'Sec. 1. State Planning Office and Department of Agriculture, Food and 
Rural Resources to oversee a study of the State's beverage container laws in 
the context of existing municipal beverage container recycling programs. 
Resolved: That the Executive Department, State Planning Office, in conjunction with 
the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources, shall oversee a 2-year study to 
be performed by an independent private entity to review the State's beverage container 
laws in the context of existing municipal recycling programs, with a focus on the 
environmental effects that these laws and programs generate. The State Planning Office 
and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources shall engage the assistance 
of an expert consultant in the field of municipal recycling programs and their 
environmental effects to assist in the development of the request for proposals for the 
study. The study must include an assessment of: 
l. Current beverage container recycling rates; 
2. The carbon footprints created by the beverage container recycling laws and 
municipal beverage container recycling programs; 
3. Comprehensive beverage container recycling programs in the State; 
4. Barriers to comprehensive beverage container recycling; 
5. Alternative models of sustainability; 
6. Energy and economic efficiencies; 
7. The effect of educational programs on beverage container recycling rates; 
8. The potential effects on redemption centers of advances in beverage container 
recycling programs; and 
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Sec. 2. Reporting date; funding sources. Resolved: That, if private funds 
from outside sources for the expert consultant and study described in section 1 are 
received by January 15, 2010, the study must be completed no later than January 15, 
2012, unless a one-year extension is necessary to complete the study. The Executive 
Department, State Planning Office and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Resources shall notify the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over business, research and economic development matters as soon as outside funding for 
the study is received, and shall provide the committee with an interim report on the status 
of the study by January 1 5, 2011; and be it further 
Sec. 3. 
Appropriations and allocations. 
Resolved: 
That the following 
appropriations and allocations are made. 
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 
Planning Office 0082 
Initiative: Allocates funds to allow private outside sources of funds to be used to hire a 
consultant for a study on beverage container recycling programs. 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS 
All Other 
OTHER SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS TOTAL 
SUMMARY 
2009-10 
$0 
$0 
2010-11 
$250,000 
$250,000 
This amendment is the minoritY report of the committee. It replaces the bill, which' 
was a concept draft, with a resolve that directs the Executive Department, State Planning 
Office, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to 
oversee a 2-year study to be performed by an independent private entity to review the 
State's beverage container laws in the context of existing municipal beverage container 
recycling programs, with a focus on the environmental effects that these laws and 
programs generate. The resolve requires the State Planning Office and the Department of 
Agriculture, Food and Rural Resources to engage the assistance of an expert consultant in 
the field of municipal beverage container recycling programs and their environmental 
effects to assist in the development of the request for proposals for the study. The resolve 
also provides that if private funds from outside sources for the expert consultant and 
study are received by January 15, 2010, the study must be completed no later than 
January 15, 2012, unless a one-year extension is necessary to complete the study. It 
requires the State Planning Office and the Department of Agriculture, Food and Rural 
Resources to notify the joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction 
over business, research and economic development matters as soon as outside funding for 
the study is received and to provide the committee with an interim report on the status of 
the study by January 15,2011. 
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT "13,, to S.P. 270, L.D. 733 
This amendment also adds an appropriations and allocations section. 
FISCAL NOTE REQUIRED 
(See attached) 
COMMITTEE AMENDMENT 
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LD733 
LR 1781(03) 
Resolve, To Examine Environmental Effects of the Dual Recovery System for Beverage Containers 
Fiscal Note for Bill as Amended by Committee Amendment ,£" 
Committee: Business, Research and Economic Development 
Fiscal Note Required: Yes 
Fiscal Note 
2009-10 
2010-11 
Projections 
2011-12 
Appropriations/Allocations 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Revenue 
Other Special Revenue Funds 
Fiscal Detail and Notes 
$0 
$250,000 
$0 
$0 
$250,000 
$0 
Projections 
2012-13 
$0 
$0 
This bill requires the State Planning Office (SPO) and the Department of Agriculture to study the beverage container 
laws of existing municipal recycling programs by hiring a consultant with expertise in this area. The one-time cost of 
the consultant is estimated to be $250,000 and the fundingis to be raised by private, outside sources. The additional 
costs to the SPO and the Department of Agriculture associated with the study can be absorbed within existing 
budgeted resources. 
LRl78l (03) - Fiscal Note - Page 1 of 1 
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