2023 California Code › Public Resources Code - PRC › DIVISION 30 - WASTE MANAGEMENT › PART 3 - STATE PROGRAMS › CHAPTER 17 - California Tire Recycling Act › ARTICLE 5 - Financial Provisions › Section 42885.5.

42885.5. (a) The department shall adopt a five-year plan, which shall be updated every two years, to establish goals and priorities for the waste tire program and each program element.
(b) On or before July 1, 2001, and every two years thereafter, the department shall submit the adopted five-year plan to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The department shall include in the plan elements addressing programmatic and fiscal issues, including, but not limited to, the hierarchy used by the department to maximize productive uses of waste and used tires, and the performance objectives and measurement criteria used by the department to evaluate the success of its waste and used tire recycling program. Additionally, based upon performance measures developed by the department, the plan shall describe the effectiveness of each element of the program, including, but not limited to, the following:
(1) Enforcement and regulations relating to the storage of waste and used tires.
(2) Cleanup, abatement, or other remedial action related to waste tire stockpiles throughout the state.
(3) Research directed at promoting and developing alternatives to the landfill disposal of waste tires.
(4) Market development and new technology activities for used tires and waste tires.
(5) The waste and used tire hauler program, the registration of, and reporting by, tire brokers, and the manifest system.
(6) A description of the grants, loans, contracts, and other expenditures proposed to be made by the department under the tire recycling program.
(7) Until June 30, 2015, the grant program authorized under Section 42872.5 to encourage the use of waste tires, including, but not limited to, rubberized asphalt concrete technology, in public works projects.
(8) Border region activities, conducted in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(A) Training programs to assist Mexican waste and used tire haulers meet the requirements for hauling those tires in California.
(B) Environmental education training.
(C) In coordination with the California-Mexico Border Relations Council, development of a waste tire abatement plan, which may also provide for the abatement of solid waste, with the appropriate government entities of California and Mexico.
(D) Tracking both the legal and illegal waste and used tire flow across the border and recommending revisions to the waste tire policies of California and Mexico.
(E) Coordination with businesses operating in the border region and with Mexico, with regard to applying the same environmental and control requirements throughout the border region.
(F) Development of projects in Mexico in the California-Mexico border region, as defined by the La Paz Agreement, that include, but are not limited to, education, infrastructure, mitigation, cleanup, prevention, reuse, and recycling projects, that address the movement of used tires from California to Mexico, and support the cleanup of illegally disposed waste tires and solid waste along the border that could negatively impact California’s environment.
(9) Grants to certified community conservation corps and community conservation corps, pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of, and paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of, Section 17001, for purposes of the programs specified in paragraphs (2) and (6) and for related education and outreach.
(c) The department shall base the budget for the California Tire Recycling Act and program funding on the plan.
(d) The plan may not propose financial or other support that promotes, or provides for research for the incineration of tires.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 24, Sec. 38. (SB 83) Effective June 24, 2015.)