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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Allen</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act to add Sections 42040.5 and 42064.5 to the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act: California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (act), regulates certain single-use packaging and plastic single-use food service ware, as provided. As part of its comprehensive statutory scheme, the act requires producers of covered materials to reduce and recycle covered plastic material and to ensure that covered materials that are offered for sale, distributed, or imported in or into the state on or after January 1, 2032, are recyclable or compostable, as provided.</html:p>
<html:p>The act establishes, until January 1, 2037, the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, which consists of all environmental mitigation surcharges, interest, penalties, and other amounts collected pursuant to the act, as provided. The act requires, upon appropriation by the Legislature, that 60% of the moneys in the fund be expended to
monitor and reduce the historical and current environmental justice and public health impacts of plastics, and that 40% of the moneys in the fund be expended to monitor and reduce the environmental impacts of plastics on terrestrial, aquatic, and marine life and human health.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would, among other things, require each expenditure made upon appropriation from the fund to achieve one or more of specified purposes, including, among others, catalyzing mitigation of the adverse health impacts of plastics and creating or accelerating a transformative shift away from plastic production, use, and tendency to be disposed of after limited use. The bill would require each of those expenditures to comply with specified requirements, including, among others, prioritizing programs and projects that benefit communities most burdened by the impacts of plastic pollution and that provide multiple benefits. The bill would require each department, agency, or entity implementing
a grant program funded by the fund to take specified actions, such as providing technical assistance and using a single standardized, simplified application across all of those entities. The bill would require reimbursement of a grantee’s or subgrantee’s indirect costs by applying one of four enumerated rates. The bill would authorize moneys from the fund to be expended on implementing the bill and would prohibit moneys from the fund from being expended on specified purposes.</html:p>
<html:p>The bill would require the Secretary for Environmental Protection to annually publish a list of all program and project expenditures made pursuant to the fund, as specified.</html:p>
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Section 42040.5 is added to the
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<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:</html:p>
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(a)
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Plastics, including microplastics and chemical additives used in plastic production, are increasingly present in drinking water, food systems, and the environment, and emerging scientific evidence indicates likely risks to public health.
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(b)
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Plastic pollution, including single-use packaging and plastic products, continues to pose significant and long-lasting harm to California’s natural environment, including waterways, coastal and marine ecosystems, wildlife, and land resources.
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(c)
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Section 42064 establishes the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, a fund intended to
augment the state’s efforts to prevent and reduce plastic pollution, mitigate environmental and public health impacts of plastic and plastic pollution, and advance the state’s waste reduction and recycling goals beyond the requirements that this chapter places on producers.
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(d)
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Directing funding pursuant to Section 42064 toward pollution prevention, environmental restoration, public health protection, and related activities is necessary to address the statewide and disproportionate impacts of plastic pollution and to ensure that producer responsibility requirements result in measurable, durable, and transformative environmental and public health benefits.
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Section 42064.5 is added to the
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(a)
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Each expenditure from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (j) or (k) of Section 42064, shall achieve one or more of the following:
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(1)
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Catalyze mitigation of the adverse health impacts of plastics and create or accelerate a transformative shift away from plastic production, use, and tendency to be disposed of after limited use.
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(2)
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Durably reduce the amount of plastic waste entering the environment, either as litter or microplastic pollution, including by advancing state strategies on microplastics and plastics in marine environments.
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(3)
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Restore lands and waterways that have been negatively impacted by plastic pollution, including microplastics.
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(4)
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Protect natural lands and waterways from plastic waste and pollution, including microplastics.
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(b)
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Each expenditure from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (j) or (k) of Section 42064, shall do all of the following:
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(1)
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Improve public or environmental health.
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(2)
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Incorporate efforts to inform the public of the investment and to improve understanding of the health impacts of the life cycle of plastics.
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(3)
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Prioritize programs and projects that do all of the following:
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(A)
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Benefit communities most burdened by the impacts of plastic pollution.
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(B)
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Are aligned with or implement community-driven solutions.
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(C)
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Provide multiple benefits.
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(D)
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Demonstrate engagement with communities and tribes in planning, development, and implementation.
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(c)
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Each department, agency, or entity implementing a grant program funded in whole or in part by the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund shall do all of the following in implementing the grant program:
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(1)
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Provide technical assistance to eligible grant applicants.
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(2)
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Use a single
standardized, simplified application to be used by all implementing departments, agencies, and entities.
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(3)
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Consider the use of awards and categorical grant opportunities in addition to competitive grants.
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(4)
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Provide advanced payments in accordance with Section 11019.3 of the Government Code to initiate projects in a timely manner.
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(5)
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When awarding a grant, reimburse the grantee’s and any subgrantee’s indirect costs, as defined by Section 200.1 of Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, by applying one of the following rates as requested by the grantee and any subgrantee:
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(A)
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The grantee’s or subgrantee’s negotiated indirect cost rate pursuant to its negotiated indirect cost rate agreement.
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(B)
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The de minimis indirect cost rate specified in Part 200 of Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
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(C)
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A rate negotiated by the grantee or subgrantee with another state agency or department within the last five years.
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(D)
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A rate proposed by the grantee in the grantee’s program application with the administering state agency or department if the grantee does not have an existing state rate.
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(d)
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(1)
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Consistent with subdivision (g) of Section 42064, moneys from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund shall not be expended on either of the following:
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(A)
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Any obligations of a producer responsibility organization.
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(B)
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To fulfill any
environmental mitigation requirements or compliance obligations imposed by any law other than this section or Section 42064.
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(2)
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Notwithstanding subdivision (g) of Section 42064, moneys from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund may be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature pursuant to subdivision (j) or (k) of Section 42064, to implement this section.
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(e)
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In addition to the entities listed in paragraph (3) of subdivision (j) of, and paragraph (3) of subdivision (k) of, Section 42064, the following entities are eligible for grants under this section and Section 42064:
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(1)
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Public agencies.
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(2)
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Nonprofit organizations.
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(3)
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Special districts.
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(4)
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Joint powers authorities.
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(5)
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Public utilities.
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(6)
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Local publicly owned utilities.
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(7)
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Mutual water companies.
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(f)
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The Secretary for Environmental Protection shall publish a list of all program and project expenditures pursuant to this section and Section 42064 not less than annually, in written form, and shall post that list on the California Environmental Protection Agency’s internet website in a downloadable spreadsheet format. The spreadsheet shall include all of the following information for each program and project that has received moneys from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund:
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(1)
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The location and
footprint of the program or project.
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(2)
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The objectives and anticipated outcomes of the program or project.
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(3)
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The status of the program or project.
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(4)
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A description of the outreach and engagement performed to develop the program or project.
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(5)
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The public benefits to be derived from the program or project, including whether the program or project delivers meaningful and direct benefits to vulnerable populations, disadvantaged communities, or severely disadvantaged communities.
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(6)
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The total cost of the program or project, if known.
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(7)
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The amount of funding provided from the California Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund to
the program or project.
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(8)
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Any matching funds provided by any grant recipient or other partners to the program or project.
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(9)
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Evidence of measurable reductions in plastic pollution accomplished by the program or project.
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