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Regular Session, 2012
HOUSE BILL NO. 1067
BY REPRESENTATIVE ST. GERMAIN
ENVIRONMENT/WASTE SITES: Provides for reimbursement for processing waste tires
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 30:2418(I)(2), relative to recycling waste tires; to provide for2
payment to waste tire processors; and to provide for related matters.3
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:4
Section 1. R.S. 30:2418(I)(2) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:5
§2418. Waste tires6
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I.8
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(2) A permitted waste tire processing facility shall be paid a minimum of one10
dollar and fifty seven and a half cents per twenty pounds pound of waste tire material11
that is recycled or that reaches end-market uses or per twenty pounds pound of whole12
waste tires marketed and shipped to a qualified recycler . This payment shall be13
conditioned on the facility providing to the department any documentation, including14
but not limited to manifests, statements, or certified scale-weight tickets, required by15
law or by rules and regulations promulgated by the department.16
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HB NO. 1067
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DIGEST
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part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
St. Germain HB No. 1067
Abstract: Provides for the payment to waste tire processors.
Present law requires that waste tire processing facility be paid by DEQ a minimum of $1.50
per 20 pounds of waste tire material, which equals 7-½¢ per pound, that is recycled or that
reaches end-market uses or per 20 pounds of whole waste tires marketed and shipped to a
qualified recycler.
Proposed law changes the calculation of the payment to waste tire processing facilities to
7-½¢ per pound of waste tire material that is recycled or that reaches end-market uses or that
reaches end-market uses or per whole waste tires marketed and shipped to a qualified
recycler.
Present law conditions payment on the facility providing to DEQ any documentation,
including but not limited to manifests, statements, or certified scale-weight tickets, required
by law or by rules and regulations promulgated by the department.
Proposed law retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 30:2418(I)(2))
Summary of Amendments Adopted by House
Committee Amendments Proposed by House Committee on Natural Resources and
Environment to the original bill.
1. Allowed present law calculation of reimbursement by whole waste tire.