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The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation

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(Dockery) recommended the following amendment to amendment

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(223658):

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     Senate Amendment (with title amendment)

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     Between line(s) 2157 and 2158,

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insert:

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     Section 41. Recycling.--

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     (1) The Legislature finds that the failure or inability to

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economically recover material and energy resources from solid

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waste results in the unnecessary waste and depletion of our

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natural resources. Therefore, the maximum recycling and reuse of

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such resources must be a high-priority goal of this state.

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     (2) The long-term goal for reducing solid waste through the

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recycling efforts of state and local governmental entities shall,

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by the year 2020, be a statewide average reduction of 75 percent

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of the amount of solid waste that was disposed of in 2007, not

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including any recycling efforts undertaken during that year.

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     (3) The Department of Environmental Protection shall, by

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January 1, 2010, develop a recycling program in conjunction with

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state and local governments which is designed to meet the

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reduction goal stated in subsection (2).

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================ T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================

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And the title is amended as follows:

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     On line(s) 2396, after the semicolon,

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insert:

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establishing a statewide solid waste reduction goal by a

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certain date; requiring the Department of Environmental

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Protection to develop a recycling program designed to meet

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that goal;

3/19/2008  11:03:00 AM     15-05310-08