Solid waste: tires.

The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to administer a tire recycling program and authorizes the tire recycling program to include, among other things, the awarding of grants to public entities involved in activities and applications that result in reduced landfill disposal of used whole tires and reduced illegal disposal or stockpiling of used whole tires. This bill would require a public entity that submits an application for a grant from the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup and Amnesty Event Grant Program administered by the department to ask the local community conservation corps, as the bill would define that term, if it wishes to assist with cleanup or amnesty events in the event that the public entity receives a program grant. The public entity would be required to include with its application a statement that it has complied with that requirement and a statement of whether the local community conservation corps wishes to participate. If there is no local community conservation corps in the city in which cleanup or amnesty events will occur, the public entity would be required to include with its application a statement to that effect.