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Supervisor Parlin, as the appointee to the Rural County Representatives of California Environmental Services Joint Powers Authority, recommending the Board send a letter of support to Senator Alvarado-Gil requesting that she introduce the Rural County Representatives of California Legislative Proposal: SB 1383 Organic Waste Recycling Right-Sizing and Flexibility.
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Excerpt from attached RCRC SB 1383 Legislative Proposal 2024:
[SB 1383 (Lara, Chapter 395, 2016) requires the state to reduce landfill disposal of organic waste 75 percent below 2014 levels by 2025. CalRecycle estimates that these far-reaching SB 1383 regulations could cost as much as $40 billion to implement over a ten-year period and will require the construction of as many as 100 new organic waste recycling facilities.]
El Dorado County is a member of the Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) Environmental Services Joint Powers Authority (ESJPA). As a member county, El Dorado has been participating in the ESJPA’s efforts to right-size and gain flexibility in implementing SB 1383, which has been burdensome and costly to many of the RCRC ESJPA member counties. The ESJPA has formulated the attached Proposal and is reaching out to Senator Alvarado-Gil to introduce the Proposal as legislation. ESJPA member counties have been asked to reach out to Senator Alvardo-Gil to request that she introduce the legislation on behalf of RCRC.
The RCRC legislative proposal that would affect El Dorado County would include:
· Provide additional flexibility for 12 smaller counties to propose an alternative or modified organic waste diversion and recycling program for CalRecycle’s approval.
· This applies to unincorporated portions of El Dorado, Humboldt, Imperial, Kings, Mendocino, Madera, Napa, Nevada, Shasta, Yuba, Sutter, and Yolo Counties but excludes census-designated places with a population greater than 10,000 residents.
· This provision is intend...
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