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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to solid waste management;

  3         authorizing the Department of Environmental

  4         Protection to use trust fund moneys as grants

  5         to Florida-based businesses that recycle

  6         lead-acid batteries and other lead-containing

  7         materials; directing the department to work

  8         with the Department of Management Services to

  9         implement a pilot program to collect

10         lead-containing products; providing an

11         appropriation; amending s. 403.717, F.S.;

12         amending definitions; providing an effective

13         date.

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15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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17         Section 1.  The Legislature recognizes a need for

18  providing a capability within the state for responding to the

19  reuse, recycling, and proper management of waste products

20  generated by users of lead-containing products within the

21  state.

22         Section 2.  The Department of Environmental Protection

23  is authorized to use funds from the Solid Waste Management

24  Trust Fund as grants to Florida-based businesses that recycle

25  lead-acid batteries and other lead-containing materials,

26  including products such as televisions and computer monitors

27  that utilize lead-containing cathode ray tubes. This incentive

28  funding may be used for research and development in methods to

29  recover and recycle lead from the environment; for innovative

30  technologies and equipment to process and recycle

31  lead-containing materials; and for establishing an


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  1  infrastructure to collect and transport lead-containing

  2  material to Florida-based recycling businesses.

  3         Section 3.  The Department of Environmental Protection

  4  is directed to work with the Department of Management Services

  5  to implement a pilot program to collect lead-containing

  6  products, including end-of-life computers and other electronic

  7  equipment from state and local agencies. Local governments are

  8  encouraged to establish collection and recycling programs for

  9  publicly and privately owned lead-containing products,

10  including end-of-life televisions, computers, and other

11  electronic products through existing recycling and household

12  hazardous-waste-management programs.

13         Section 4.  Subject to the availability of funds, up to

14  $400,000 is appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Trust

15  Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection for Fiscal

16  Year 1999-2000 to fund the grants authorized by this act. The

17  department is authorized to request annual funding for these

18  grants through the Fiscal Year 2004-2005.

19         Section 5.  Subsections (1) and (5) of section 403.717,

20  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

21         403.717  Waste tire and lead-acid battery

22  requirements.--

23         (1)  For purposes of this section and ss. 403.718,

24  403.7185, and 403.719:

25         (a)  "Department" means the Department of Environmental

26  Protection.

27         (b)  "Motor vehicle" means an automobile, motorcycle,

28  truck, trailer, semitrailer, truck tractor and semitrailer

29  combination, or any other vehicle operated in this state, used

30  to transport persons or property and propelled by power other

31  than muscular power, but the term does not include traction


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  1  engines, road rollers, such vehicles as run only upon a track,

  2  bicycles, mopeds, or farm tractors and trailers.

  3         (c)  "Tire" means a continuous solid or pneumatic

  4  rubber covering encircling the wheel of a motor vehicle.

  5         (d)  "Waste tire" means a tire that has been removed

  6  from a motor vehicle and has not been retreaded or regrooved.

  7  "Waste tire" includes, but is not limited to, used tires and

  8  processed tires.

  9         (e)  "Waste tire collection center" means a site where

10  waste tires are collected from the public prior to being

11  offered for recycling and where fewer than 1,500 1,000 tires

12  are kept on the site on any given day.

13         (f)  "Waste tire processing facility" means a site

14  where equipment is used to recapture reusable byproducts from

15  waste tires or to cut, burn, or otherwise alter waste tires so

16  that they are no longer whole. The term includes mobile waste

17  tire processing equipment.

18         (g)  "Waste tire site" means a site at which 1,500

19  1,000 or more waste tires are accumulated.

20         (h)  "Lead-acid battery" means those lead-acid

21  batteries designed for use in motor vehicles, vessels, and

22  aircraft, and includes such batteries when sold as a component

23  part of a motor vehicle, vessel, or aircraft, but not when

24  sold to recycle components.

25         (i)  "Indoor" means within a structure which excludes

26  rain and public access and would control air flows in the

27  event of a fire.

28         (j)  "Processed tire" means a tire that has been

29  treated mechanically, chemically, or thermally so that the

30  resulting material is a marketable product or is suitable for

31  proper disposal.


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  1         (k)  "Used tire" means a waste tire which has a minimum

  2  tread depth of  3/32  inch or greater and is suitable for use

  3  on a motor vehicle.

  4         (5)  A permit is not required for tire storage at:

  5         (a)  A tire retreading business where fewer than 1,500

  6  1,000 waste tires are kept on the business premises;

  7         (b)  A business that, in the ordinary course of

  8  business, removes tires from motor vehicles if fewer than

  9  1,500 1,000 of these tires are kept on the business premises;

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11         (c)  A retail tire-selling business which is serving as

12  a waste tire collection center if fewer than 1,500 1,000 waste

13  tires are kept on the business premises.

14         Section 6.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1999.

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