Current Status Bill Number:4655 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19980218 Primary Sponsor:Sharpe All Sponsors:Sharpe Drafted Document Number:kgh\15420ac.98 Residing Body:Senate Date of Last Amendment:19980528 Subject:Solid waste reduction and recycling, goals revised; Water and Sewer, Conservation
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Senate 19980528 Read second time, ordered to
third reading with notice of
general amendments
Senate 19980528 Committee amendment adopted
Senate 19980527 Committee report: Favorable with 13 SMA
amendment
Senate 19980414 Introduced, read first time, 13 SMA
referred to Committee
House 19980408 Read third time, sent to Senate
House 19980407 Amended, read second time
House 19980401 Committee report: Favorable with 20 HANR
amendment
House 19980218 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR
referred to Committee
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
May 28, 1998
H. 4655
S. Printed 5/28/98--S.
Read the first time April 14, 1998.
TO AMEND SECTION 44-96-50, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO STATE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY AND GOALS, SO AS TO REVISE THE STATE GOALS CONCERNING SOLID WASTE REDUCTION AND RECYCLING; TO AMEND SECTION 44-96-60, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE STATE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PLAN, ANNUAL REPORT, AND ADVISORY COUNCIL, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES AND PROMULGATE REGULATIONS NECESSARY TO OBTAIN RECYCLING DATA; AND TO AMEND SECTION 44-96-150 RELATING TO PLASTIC PACKAGING FOR PRODUCTS, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT LABELING ON SUCH PACKAGING MUST BE INTERPRETED TO CONFORM WITH NATIONWIDE PLASTICS INDUSTRY STANDARDS.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 44-96-50(D), (E), and (F) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 63 of 1991, is amended to read:
"(D) It is the goal of this State to reduce, on a statewide per capita basis, the amount of municipal solid waste being received at municipal solid waste landfills and any solid waste incinerators permitted after the effective date of this chapter by thirty percent, calculated by weight, of the fiscal year 1993 solid waste level, municipal solid waste incinerators generated to 4.3 pounds per day not later than six years after the date of enactment of this chapter. In determining whether this waste reduction goal has been achieved, no more than fifty percent of this goal may be met by the removal from the municipal solid waste stream of yard trash, land-clearing debris, white goods, construction and demolition debris, and waste tires June 30, 2005.
In a county or municipality where a recycling or reduction program is in place prior to 1993, the base figure for determining a thirty percent reduction goal is the weight of solid waste reduced, recycled, or removed from the municipal solid waste stream during one of the preceding two years in that county or municipality added to the amount of solid waste currently being disposed of by that county or municipality in municipal solid waste landfills together with the weight of solid waste reduced due to incineration. Waste reduction resulting from incineration may not account for more than fifty percent of a solid waste landfill effort toward the thirty percent reduction goal and only if the incineration is performed at a facility permitted prior to the effective date of this chapter.
(E) It is the goal of this State to recycle, on a statewide basis, at least twenty-five thirty-five percent, calculated by weight, of the total municipal solid waste stream generated in this State not no later than six years after the date of enactment of this chapter June 30, 2005.
(F) It is the goal of this State to continue setting new and revised solid waste recycling and waste reduction goals after June 30, 2005. These goals must be established in a manner so as to attempt to further reduce the flow of solid waste being disposed of in municipal solid waste landfills and solid waste incinerators."
SECTION 2. Section 44-96-50 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 63 of 1991, is amended by adding an appropriately lettered subsection at the end to read:
"( ) For the purposes of Sections 44-96-50 and 44-96-60, 'municipal solid waste' includes, but is not limited to, wastes that are durable goods, nondurable goods, containers and packaging, food scraps, yard trimmings, and miscellaneous inorganic wastes from residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial sources including, but not limited to, appliances, automobile tires, old newspapers, clothing, disposable tableware, office and classroom paper, wood pallets, and cafeteria wastes. 'Municipal solid waste' does not include solid wastes from other sources including, but not limited to, construction and demolition debris, autobodies, municipal sludges, combustion ash, and industrial process wastes that also might be disposed of in municipal waste landfills or incinerators."
SECTION 3. Section 44-96-60(B) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 63 of 1991, is amended by adding at the end:
"The department may establish procedures and promulgate regulations necessary to obtain recycling data. These procedures may include, but are not limited to, registration of municipal solid waste recyclers and requiring municipal solid waste recyclers to submit annual reports on the amounts, actual or estimated, and types of materials recycled and the county, when available, in which the materials were generated."
SECTION 4. Section 44-96-150(F) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 63 of 1991, is amended by adding at the end:
"Nothing in this subsection may prevent a manufacturer or distributor of containers that are produced from a plastic resin not identified in this subsection from adopting a labeling code number and letter that will assist in the segregation and collection of that resin for recycling if the code number and letter used are nationally recognized industry standards."
SECTION 5. This act takes effect July 1, 1998.