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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board:
1) Adopt and authorize the Chair to sign Resolution 032-2022 approving submittal of the Notification of Intent to Comply with Senate Bill 1383 Regulations regarding organics waste landfill diversion, as required by the California Department of Recycling Resources and Recovery; and
2) Authorize the Director of the Environmental Management Department to sign the Notification of Intent to Comply.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On September 19, 2016, Governor Brown signed into law SB 1383 (Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016), establishing methane emissions reduction targets in an effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in various sectors of California’s economy. The statute sets statewide targets to reduce landfill disposal of organic material compared to 2014 baseline data (50% reduction by 2020 and 75% reduction by 2025), and to recover 20% of currently disposed edible food for human consumption by 2025. The law granted CalRecycle the regulatory authority required to achieve these statewide reduction targets.
SB 1383 sets statewide reduction targets, instead of jurisdiction-specific targets, for organics reduction. CalRecycle developed the Short Lived Climate Pollutants: Organic Waste Reductions requirements in Title 14, California Code of Regulations (SB 1383 Regulations) to include prescriptive program requirements for all California jurisdictions, generators, waste haulers, and waste processors that were deemed necessary in order to meet the statewide organics reduction targets. SB 1383 Regulations require the County to establish legal authority to implement and mandate programs through the adoption of ordinances, policies, or similarly enforceable mechanisms by January 1, 2022. Environmental Management Department (EMD) is currently working on necessary revisions to the County Solid Waste Ordinance Code, the development of new or expanded programs and policies, a...
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