The Florida Senate

¹403.71851  Electronic recycling grants.--The Department of Environmental Protection is authorized to use funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund as grants to Florida-based businesses with 5 or more years' experience in electronics recycling that recycle electronics such as commercial telephone switching equipment, computers, televisions, computer monitors, and other products that utilize lead-containing cathode ray tubes. This funding shall be used for demonstration projects with one or more counties for countywide comprehensive electronics recycling where that term means recycling that provides service to the private sector, nonprofit organizations, governmental agencies, and the residential sector. This funding may also be used for grants to counties to develop methods to collect and transport electronics to be recycled provided such methods are comprehensive in nature.

History.--s. 2, ch. 99-215; s. 3, ch. 2001-224.

¹Note.--Section 4, ch. 99-215, provides that "[s]ubject to the availability of funds, up to $400,000 is appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection for Fiscal Year 1999-2000 to fund the grants authorized by this act. The department is authorized to request annual funding for these grants through the Fiscal Year 2004-2005."