SLS 20RS-439 ORIGINAL
2020 Regular Session
SENATE BILL NO. 372
BY SENATOR LAMBERT
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY. Provides for requirements to participate in the waste tire
program. (8/1/20)
1 AN ACT
2 To amend and reenact R.S. 30:2418(H)(1), relative to the waste tire program in the
3 Department of Environmental Quality; to authorize the establishment of standards,
4 requirements, and permitting procedures; to provide for waste tire generators; to
5 authorize the promulgation of rules, regulations, and guidelines; and to provide for
6 related matters.
7 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:
8 Section 1. R.S. 30:2418(H)(1) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as follows:
9 ยง2418. Waste tires
10 H. The secretary shall promulgate rules, regulations, and guidelines for the
11 administration and enforcement of the waste tire program provided for in this
12 Chapter, which shall be subject to legislative review and approval by the Senate
13 Committee on Environmental Quality and the House Committee on Natural
14 Resources and Environment. The rules, regulations, and guidelines shall provide for
15 but not be limited to:
16 (1) Establishing standards, requirements, and permitting procedures for waste
17 tire transporters, collection sites, generators, and processors. Requirements The
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1 requirements for waste tire transporters, collection sites, and processors shall
2 include proof of commercial liability insurance in a sufficient amount and other
3 evidence of financial responsibility as determined by the secretary. For waste tire
4 transporters, financial responsibility shall include a surety bond in a minimum
5 amount of ten thousand dollars, as determined by the secretary.
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Tyler S. McCloud.
DIGEST
SB 372 Original 2020 Regular Session Lambert
Present law provides for the waste tire program in the Dept. of Environmental Quality. One
aspect of the program is to reimburse waste tire processors from the Waste Tire Management
Fund for scrapping waste tires generated within the state.
Present law authorizes the secretary of the department to promulgate rules, regulations, and
guidelines for the administration and enforcement of the program. Present law provides that
such rules and regulations, and guidelines establish the standards, requirements, and
permitting procedures for waste tire transporters, collection sites, and processors.
Proposed law retains present law and also requires establishment of standards, requirements,
and permitting procedures for generators.
Present law provides that the requirements include proof of commercial liability insurance
and other evidence of financial responsibility as determined by the secretary. Proposed law
limits this requirement to tire transporters, collection sites, and processors, while excluding
generators.
Present law requires waste tire transporters provide a surety bond in a minimum amount of
$10,000, as determined by the secretary. Proposed law retains present law.
Present law requires the owner or operator of a waste tire collection center to provide the
department with a notification of the site's location, size, and the approximate number of
waste tires that are accumulated at the site. Proposed law retains present law.
Present law prohibits the knowing and intentional disposal of waste tires in the state, unless
the waste tires are disposed of for processing, or collected for processing, at a permitted solid
waste disposal facility, a permitted waste tire processing facility, or a waste tire collection
center. Proposed law retains present law.
Effective August 1, 2020.
(Amends R.S. 30:2418(H)(1))
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