Arizona Laws 49-837. Recycling fund; use; advisory committee
A. A recycling fund is established to be administered by the director. The fund consists of monies appropriated by the legislature, gifts, grants, donations and monies derived from the landfill disposal fees in section 49-836. Monies derived from landfill disposal fees are subject to legislative appropriation. Monies in the fund are exempt from lapsing under section 35-190. On notice from the director, the state treasurer shall invest and divest monies in the fund as provided by section 35-313, and monies earned from investment shall be credited to the fund.
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 49-837
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Collection: means the act of picking up post-consumer secondary materials from homes, businesses, governmental agencies, institutions or industrial sites. See Arizona Laws 49-831
- County: means :
(a) The board of supervisors in the context of the exercise of powers or duties. See Arizona Laws 49-701
- Director: means the director of environmental quality who is also the director of the department. See Arizona Laws 49-101
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Population: means the population according to the most recent United States decennial census. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Recycled: means a process by which post-consumer materials are collected, separated, cleansed, treated or reconstituted and returned to the economic stream in the form of raw materials or products. See Arizona Laws 49-831
- Recycling: means the process of collecting, separating, cleansing, treating and reconstituting post-consumer materials that would otherwise become solid waste and returning them to the economic stream in the form of raw material for reconstituted products that meet the quality standards necessary to be used in the marketplace, but does not include incineration or other similar processes. See Arizona Laws 49-831
- Source reduction: means any action that causes a net reduction in the generation of solid waste and includes reducing the use of nonrecyclable materials, replacing disposable materials and products with reusable materials and products, reducing packaging, reducing the amount of yard waste generated, establishing garbage rate structures with incentives to reduce the amount of wastes that generators produce and increasing the efficiency of the use of paper, cardboard, glass, metal, plastic and other materials in the manufacturing process. See Arizona Laws 49-831
B. Monies from the recycling fund shall be used for the following purposes:
1. Grants to or contracts with political subdivisions, nonprofit organizations or private enterprise for research, demonstration projects, new technologies, market development and source reduction studies and implementation of the recommendations or reports prepared pursuant to this article.
2. Public information, public education and technical assistance programs concerning litter control, recycling and source reduction.
3. The collection and administration of monies in the fund.
4. The administration of this article.
5. The administration of the Arizona commerce authority’s recycled market development program. At the end of each fiscal year, any funds not spent by the authority for this purpose shall be returned to the fund.
6. The department’s solid waste control program activities prescribed in this chapter and in title 44.
C. In making expenditures pursuant to subsection B, paragraph 2 of this section, the director shall ensure that counties having a population of less than five hundred thousand persons receive benefits in proportion to their contributions to the fund.
D. The director shall appoint an advisory committee to advise the director on the use of monies in the recycling fund. The advisory committee shall consist of two representatives from private solid waste collection businesses, two representatives from private solid waste recycling businesses, four representatives from political subdivisions that have implemented recycling and source reduction programs, at least one of whom resides in a county having a population of fewer than five hundred thousand persons, and one representative of the general public. The members of the committee serve at the pleasure of the director and are not eligible to receive compensation, and the committee is an advisory committee for purposes of Title 38, Chapter 3, Article 3.1.