42872.5.

 (a) (1) In addition to the purposes listed in Section 42872, the tire recycling program may include the awarding of grants to cities, counties, and other local government agencies for the funding of public works projects that use rubberized asphalt concrete. In addition to the factors listed in Sections 42874 and 42875, the department may award a grant for a public works project that uses rubberized asphalt concrete if the project will use at least 1,250 tons of rubberized asphalt concrete during the life of the project and will use 20 pounds or more of crumb rubber per ton of rubberized asphalt concrete.

(2) The department shall annually determine the amount of a grant to be awarded pursuant to this section, based on the per ton amount of rubberized asphalt concrete to be used in the project.

(3) The department shall not award a grant amount pursuant to this section that exceeds two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000).

(b) The grants described in subdivision (a) shall be funded by an appropriation in the annual Budget Act from the California Tire Recycling Management Fund established pursuant to Section 42885. To the extent possible, depending on the number of qualified applications and whether there is a sufficient supply of crumb rubber materials, funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall not be less than 16 percent of the funds appropriated pursuant to this chapter for market development and new technology activities for used tires and waste tires.

(c) In order to provide outreach to local agencies regarding the use of rubberized asphalt concrete in public works projects, all of the following shall occur:

(1) The department shall create, annually update, and post on its Internet Web site a database of public works projects that include rubberized asphalt concrete that were completed by local agencies receiving grants for purposes of this section.

(2) The Department of Transportation shall post on its public Internet Web site data and descriptions regarding state public works projects using rubberized asphalt concrete.

(3) The department shall post on its public Internet Web site a link to the data and descriptions provided under paragraph (2).

(4) The department shall provide technical support to local agencies on the design and application for rubberized asphalt concrete.

This section shall become inoperative on June 30, 2015, and, as of January 1, 2016, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2016, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

42885.5.

 (a) The board department shall adopt a five-year plan, which shall be updated every two years, to establish goals and priorities for the waste tire program and each program element.

(b) On or before July 1, 2001, and every two years thereafter, the board department shall submit the adopted five-year plan to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. The board department shall include in the plan, programmatic and fiscal issues including, but not limited to, the hierarchy used by the board department to maximize productive uses of waste and used tires, and the performance objectives and measurement criteria used by the board department to evaluate the success of its waste and used tire recycling program. Additionally, the plan shall describe each program element’s effectiveness, based upon performance measures developed by the board department, including, but not limited to, the following:

(1) Enforcement and regulations relating to the storage of waste and used tires.

(2) Cleanup, abatement, or other remedial action related to waste tire stockpiles throughout the state.

(3) Research directed at promoting and developing alternatives to the landfill disposal of waste tires.

(4) Market development and new technology activities for used tires and waste tires.

(5) The waste and used tire hauler program and manifest system.

(6) A description of the grants, loans, contracts, and other expenditures proposed to be made by the board department under the tire recycling program.

(7) Until June 30, 2010 2015, the grant program authorized under pursuant to Section 42872.5 to encourage the use of rubberized asphalt concrete technology in public works projects.

(8) Border region activities, conducted in coordination with the California Environmental Protection Agency, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(A) Training programs to assist Mexican waste and used tire haulers to meet the requirements for hauling those tires in California.

(B) Environmental education training.

(C) Development of a waste tire abatement plan, with the appropriate government entities of California and Mexico.

(D) Tracking both the legal and illegal waste and used tire flow across the border and recommended revisions to the waste tire policies of California and Mexico.

(E) Coordination with businesses operating in the border region and with Mexico, with regard to applying the same environmental and control requirements throughout the border region.

(F) Development of projects in Mexico in the California-Mexico border region, as defined by the La Paz Agreement, that include, but are not limited to, education, infrastructure, mitigation, cleanup, prevention, reuse, and recycling projects, that address the movement of used tires from California to Mexico that are eventually disposed of in California.

(c) The board department shall base the budget for the California Tire Recycling Act and program funding on the plan.

(d) The plan may shall not propose financial or other support that promotes, or provides for research for, the incineration of tires.