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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 1906

    By the Committee on Environmental Preservation; and Senators
    Dockery and Villalobos




    592-1996-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to reuse and recycling;

  3         creating s. 403.7047, F.S.; prohibiting

  4         franchises or contracts for exclusive

  5         collections of construction and demolition

  6         debris under certain circumstances; creating s.

  7         403.71853, F.S.; authorizing the Department of

  8         Environmental Protection to implement a pilot

  9         project to encourage the reuse or recycling of

10         campaign signs; authorizing the use of funds

11         from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund;

12         authorizing grants to large and small counties;

13         providing for the purpose of the grants;

14         providing an effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  Section 403.7047, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         403.7047  Collection and recycling of construction and

21  demolition debris.--

22         (1)  It is the intent of this section to increase the

23  recycling potential of construction and demolition debris.

24         (2)  A local government may not enter into a franchise

25  agreement or contract granting exclusive collections for

26  construction and demolition debris, either separately from or

27  as part of the solid waste stream, if such debris is primarily

28  destined for disposal and a qualified materials recovery

29  facility is available to the local government as a feasible

30  alternative to disposal of the construction and demolition

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 1  debris.  A qualified material recovery facility is a facility

 2  that:

 3         (a)  Is located within the county and within a

 4  reasonable distance of the center of the local government;

 5         (b)  Is properly permitted by the department to accept

 6  construction and demolition debris;

 7         (c)  Operates in compliance with applicable local

 8  ordinances, including those which regulate the disposal of

 9  residual waste from the materials recovery facility;

10         (d)  Uses scales to weigh the materials received by and

11  transported from the facility;

12         (e)  Agrees to provide documentation to the local

13  government upon request specifying the amount and type of

14  materials handled at the facility, the amount of materials

15  being disposed of, the disposal site location, and the name of

16  the person with whom such disposal was arranged; and

17         (f)  Recovers, on an annual average, at least 50

18  percent of the construction and demolition debris received at

19  the facility.

20         (3)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to

21  limit a local government's authority to enter into a franchise

22  agreement or contract for the collection of construction and

23  demolition debris that is taken to a qualified materials

24  recovery facility.

25         (4)  Nothing in this section shall be construed to

26  limit a local government's authority or obligation to honor

27  any existing franchise agreement or contract for solid waste

28  management through its current expiration date.

29         (5)  Nothing in this section shall prohibit a local

30  government from enacting ordinances designed to protect the

31  public's general health, safety, and welfare.

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 1         Section 2.  Section 403.71853, Florida Statutes, is

 2  created to read:

 3         403.71853  Campaign sign reuse and recycling.--The

 4  department may implement a pilot project to encourage the

 5  reuse or recycling of campaign signs. The department may use

 6  funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund to provide a

 7  grant to at least two large counties and at least two small

 8  counties to establish a central depository for used campaign

 9  signs and to make such signs available, at no cost to the

10  receiving entity, to schools and other entities that may have

11  a use for them and to companies that can recycle the materials

12  from which the signs are made into new materials or products.

13         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2005.

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15          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
16                         Senate Bill 1906

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18  The committee substitute provides that a local government may
    not enter into a franchise agreement or contract granting
19  exclusive collections for construction and demolition (C&D)
    debris if such debris is primarily destined for disposal and a
20  qualified materials recovery facility is available to the
    local government as a feasible alternative to disposal of the
21  C&D debris.

22  Provides that nothing in this committee substitute limits the
    local government's authority to  enter into a franchise
23  agreement or contract for the collection of C&D debris that is
    taken to a qualified materials recovery facility.
24  
    The committee subsitute does not limit the local government's
25  authority or obligation to honor any existing franchise
    agreement or contract for solid waste management through its
26  current expriation date. Further, a local government is not
    prohibited from enacting ordinances designed to protect the
27  public's general health, safety, and welfare.

28  The Department of Environmental Protection is authorized to
    implement a pilot project to encourage the reuse or recycling
29  of campaign signs.

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