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HB 456 Original 2020 Regular Session Landry
Abstract: Increases fees for waste tire disposal and increases the amount of processor payments.
Present law provides that $2.25 per passenger/light truck tire, $5 per medium truck tire, and $10 per
off-road tire be collected for every tire sold. These fees are deposited into the Waste Tire
Management Fund which is used to operate the waste tire program in the Dept. of Environmental
Quality. One aspect of that program is to reimburse waste tire processors from the fund for recycling
waste tires generated within the state.
Proposed law increases the fees in present law as follows:
Tire Type Present Fee Proposed Fee
Passenger/light
Truck/small farm
service
$2.25 $3.00
Medium Truck $5.00 $7.00
Off-road $10.00 $20.00
Present law requires permitted waste tire processing facilities to be paid a minimum of 7½¢ per
pound of waste tire material that is recycled or that reaches end market uses or per pound of whole
waste tires that are recycled or that reach end market uses.
Proposed law changes present law by removing the set amount processing facilities shall be paid in
favor of adopting a rate schedule based on either the per pound of waste tire material that is recycled
or that reaches end market uses or per pound of whole waste tires that are recycled or that reach end
market uses and establishing minimum amounts as follows:
(1)9½¢ per pound for processing waste tires that remove the steel and tire cord and produce
crumb rubber with a granular consistency.
(2)7½¢ per pound for processing waste tires to the minimum required pursuant to present law.
Proposed law prohibits charging an amount above the fees authorized by proposed law for the
disposal, transporting, or processing of waste tires. Specifies that prohibition does not apply to the sale or marketing of recycled waste tire material or whole waste tires.
Effective Oct. 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 30:2418(I)(1) and (2))