14581.
(a) Subject to the availability of funds, and pursuant to subdivision (c), the department shall expend the moneys set aside in the fund, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14580, for the purposes of this section:(1) (A) On and after July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, inclusive, up to thirty-one million dollars ($31,000,000) may be expended for that fiscal year for the payment of handling fees pursuant to Section 14585.
(B) On and after July 1, 2006, to June 30, 2007, inclusive, up to thirty-three million dollars ($33,000,000) may be expended for that fiscal year for the payment of handling fees pursuant to Section 14585.
(C) On and after July 1, 2007, to June 30, 2008, inclusive, up to thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) may be expended for that fiscal year for the payment of handling fees pursuant to Section 14585.
(D) For each fiscal year commencing July 1, 2008, the department may expend the amount necessary to make the required handling fee payment pursuant to Section 14585.
(2) Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) shall be expended annually for payments for curbside programs and neighborhood dropoff programs pursuant to Section 14549.6.
(3) (A) Fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000), plus the proportional share of the cost-of-living adjustment, as provided in subdivision (b), shall be expended annually in the form of grants for beverage
container litter reduction programs and recycling programs issued to either of the following:
(i) Certified community conservation corps that were in existence on September 30, 1999, or that are formed subsequent to that date, that are designated by a city or a city and county to perform litter abatement, recycling, and related activities, if the city or the city and county has a population, as determined by the most recent census, of more than 250,000 persons.
(ii) Community conservation corps that are designated by a county to perform litter abatement, recycling, and related activities, and are certified by the California Conservation Corps as having operated for a minimum of two years and as meeting all other criteria of Section 14507.5.
(B) Any grants provided pursuant to this paragraph shall not comprise more
than 75 percent of the annual budget of a community conservation corps.
(4) (A) On or after July 1, 2007, until June 30, 2008, for only that fiscal year, up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) may be expended in the form of competitive grants issued to community conservation corps that are designated by a city or county, and that meet all of the following criteria:
(i) Are certified by the California Conservation Corps as having operated for a minimum of two years.
(ii) Meet all other requirements under Section 14507.5.
(B) The department shall prepare and adopt criteria and procedures for evaluating grant applications on a competitive basis. Eligible activities for the use of these funds shall include developing new projects,
or enhancing or assisting existing projects, to increase beverage container recycling and increasing the quality of recycled material at the following locations:
(i) Multifamily dwellings.
(ii) Schools.
(iii) Commercial, state, and local government buildings.
(iv) Bars, restaurants, hotels, and lodging establishments, and entertainment venues.
(v) Parks and beaches.
(C) Any grants provided pursuant to this paragraph shall not comprise more than 75 percent of the annual budget of a community conservation corps.
(D) Any grants provided pursuant to this paragraph
shall support one-time capital improvement projects and shall not be used to support ongoing staff activities.
(E) Any grant funds appropriated pursuant to this paragraph that have not been awarded to a grantee prior to the end of the 2007–08 fiscal year shall revert to the fund.
(5) (A) Ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) may be expended annually for payments of five thousand dollars ($5,000) to cities and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for payments to counties for beverage container recycling and litter cleanup activities, or the department may calculate the payments to counties and cities on a per capita basis, and may pay whichever amount is greater, for those activities.
(B) Eligible activities for the use of these funds may include, but are not necessarily limited to,
support for new or existing curbside recycling programs, neighborhood dropoff recycling programs, public education-promoting beverage container recycling, litter prevention, and cleanup, cooperative regional efforts among two or more cities or counties, or both, or other beverage container recycling programs.
(C) These funds may not be used for activities unrelated to beverage container recycling or litter reduction.
(D) To receive these funds, a city, county, or city and county shall fill out and return a funding request form to the Department of Conservation. The form shall specify the beverage container recycling or litter reduction activities for which the funds will be used.
(E) The Department of Conservation shall annually prepare and distribute a funding request form to each city, county, or city and county.
The form shall specify the amount of beverage container recycling and litter cleanup funds for which the jurisdiction is eligible. The form shall not exceed one double-sided page in length, and may be submitted electronically. If a city, county, or city and county does not return the funding request form within 90 days of receipt of the form from the department, the city, county, or city and county is not eligible to receive the funds for that funding cycle.
(F) For the purposes of this paragraph, per capita population shall be based on the population of the incorporated area of a city or city and county and the unincorporated area of a county. The department may withhold payment to any city, county, or city and county that has prohibited the siting of a supermarket site, caused a supermarket site to close its business, or adopted a land use policy that restricts or prohibits the siting of a supermarket site within its jurisdiction.
(6) One million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) may be expended annually in the form of grants for beverage container recycling and litter reduction programs.
(7) (A) The department shall expend the amount necessary to pay the processing payment and supplemental processing payment established pursuant to Sections 14575 and 14575.5 and pay processing fee rebates pursuant to Section 14575.2. The department shall establish separate processing fee accounts in the fund for each beverage container material type for which a processing payment and processing fee are calculated pursuant to Section 14575, or for which a processing payment is calculated pursuant to Section 14575 and a voluntary artificial scrap value is calculated pursuant to Section 14575.1, into which account shall be deposited all of the following:
(i) All amounts paid as processing fees for each beverage container material type pursuant to Section 14575.
(ii) Funds equal to the difference between the amount in clause (i) and the amount of the processing payments established in subdivision (b) of Section 14575, and adjusted pursuant to paragraphs (2) and (3) of subdivision (c) of, and subdivision (f) of, Section 14575, to reduce the processing fee to the level provided in subdivision (f) of Section 14575, or to reflect the agreement by a willing purchaser to pay a voluntary artificial scrap value pursuant to Section 14575.1.
(iii) Funds equal to an amount sufficient to pay the total amount of the supplemental processing payments established pursuant to Section 14575.5.
(B) Notwithstanding Section 13340
of the Government Code, the moneys in each processing fee account are hereby continuously appropriated to the department for expenditure without regard to fiscal years, for purposes of making processing payments and supplemental processing payments, and reducing processing fees, pursuant to Sections 14575 and 14575.5, and paying processing fee rebates pursuant to Section 14575.2.
(8) Up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be annually expended by the department for the purposes of undertaking a statewide public education and information campaign aimed at promoting increased recycling of beverage containers.
(9) Until January 1, 2008, the department may expend up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) for the purposes of undertaking a statewide public education and information campaign aimed at promoting increased recycling of beverage containers that meets both of the following
requirements:
(A) The public education and information campaign is multimedia and includes print, radio, and television.
(B) The public education and information campaign is multilingual.
(10) Up to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) may be expended annually by the department for quality incentive payments for empty beverage containers pursuant to Section 14549.1.
(11) Up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) may be expended annually by the department, until January 1, 2012, to issue grants for recycling market development and expansion-related activities aimed at increasing the recycling of beverage containers, including, but not limited to, the following:
(A) Research and
development of collecting, sorting, processing, cleaning, or otherwise upgrading the market value of recycled beverage containers.
(B) Identification, development, and expansion of markets for recycled beverage containers.
(C) Research and development for products manufactured using recycled beverage containers.
(D) Research and development to provide high-quality materials that are substantially free of contamination.
(E) Payments to California manufacturers who recycle beverage containers that are marked by resin type identification code “3,” “4,” “5,” “6,” or “7,” pursuant to Section 18015.
(12) Up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) may be transferred on a one-time basis by the
department to the Recycling Infrastructure Loan Guarantee Account, for expenditure pursuant to Section 14582.
(13) Up to ten million dollars ($10,000,000) may be expended annually by the department for the payment of recycling incentive payments pursuant to Section 14549.7 until payments for eligible beverage containers redeemed or collected for recycling on or before December 31, 2009, have been paid.
(14) Up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be expended annually by the department for market development payments for empty plastic beverage containers pursuant to Section 14549.2, until January 1, 2012.
(15) Up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be expended, by the department, on a one-time basis beginning on January 1, 2007, in coordination with the Department of Parks and Recreation for the purposes of
installing source separated beverage container recycling receptacles at each of the state parks, starting with those parks that have the highest day use.
(16) Up to five million dollars ($5,000,000) may be expended, from January 1, 2007, to January 1, 2008, to provide grants to local governments or nonprofit agencies to place multifamily housing source separated beverage container recycling receptacles in low-income communities.
(17) (A) Up to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) may be expended from January 1, 2008, to January 1, 2009, to provide grants to place source separated beverage container recycling receptacles in multifamily housing.
(B) Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 14580, the amount of one hundred ninety-eight thousand dollars ($198,000) may be expended by the
department from the fund, on a one-time basis, for the administrative costs of implementing the grant program established by subparagraph (A).
(b) The fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000) that is set aside pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) is a base amount that the department shall adjust annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living, as measured by the Department of Labor, or a successor agency, of the federal government.
(c) (1) The department shall review all funds on a quarterly basis to ensure that there are adequate funds to make the payments specified in this section and the processing fee reductions required pursuant to Section 14575.
(2) If the department determines, pursuant to a review made pursuant to paragraph (1), that there may be inadequate
funds to pay the payments required by this section and the processing fee reductions required pursuant to Section 14575, the department shall immediately notify the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature regarding the inadequacy.
(3) On or before 180 days after the notice is sent pursuant to paragraph (2), the department may reduce or eliminate expenditures, or both, from the funds as necessary, according to the procedure set forth in subdivision (d).
(d) If the department determines that there are insufficient funds to make the payments specified pursuant to this section and Section 14575, the department shall reduce all payments proportionally.
(e) Prior to making an expenditure pursuant to paragraph (7) of subdivision (a), the department shall convene an advisory committee consisting of
representatives of the beverage industry, beverage container manufacturers, environmental organizations, the recycling industry, nonprofit organizations, and retailers, to advise the department on the most cost-effective and efficient method of the expenditure of the funds for that education and information campaign.
(f) After setting aside money for the expenditures required pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) and Section 14580, the department may, on and after January 1, 2007, but not after July 1, 2007, expend remaining moneys in the fund to pay a refund value in an amount greater than the refund value established pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 14560.