Resources: California Pollution Control Financing Authority: public lands: solid waste diversion.

(1) The California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act establishes the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, with specified powers and duties, and authorizes the authority to approve financing for projects or pollution control facilities to prevent or reduce environmental pollution. This bill would make various changes to the financial and administrative provisions of the act. The bill would include state agencies as eligible participating parties for financing, and would define project or pollution control facility as specified. The Sales and Use Tax Law imposes a tax on the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state, or on the sales price of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for the storage, use, or other consumption of that property in this state. That law defines the terms "sale" and "purchase" to exclude any transfer of title or any lease of tangible personal property constituting any project or pollution control facility to, or by, the California Pollution Control Financing Authority, as specified, when the transfer or lease is made pursuant to the California Pollution Control Financing Authority Act. This bill would provide that the exclusion applies to projects and pollution control facilities, as defined prior to the amendments to those definitions made by this act. (2) Under existing law, the State Lands Commission has the power to apply to the United States Department of the Interior for patents to the numbered school sections in place, which have not been patented by the state. This bill would delete the condition that the numbered school sections to which this provision applies be those that have not been patented by the state. (3) The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which is administered by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, requires each city, county, and regional agency, if any, to develop a source reduction and recycling element of an integrated waste management plan containing specified components. Those entities are required to divert, from disposal or transformation, 50% of the solid waste through source reduction, recycling, and composting subject to the element, except as specified. This bill would delete the condition that the solid waste subject to source reduction, recycling, and composting under these provisions, be diverted from landfill disposal or transformation. (4) Existing law establishes the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund in the State Treasury. Money in the fund may be expended for grants for projects that serve small communities, as defined, with priority given to projects that serve severely disadvantaged communities. Existing law defines "severely disadvantaged community" for purposes of the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006 as a community with a median household income of less than 60% of the statewide average. This bill would define a severely disadvantaged community as a community with a median household income of less than 60% of the statewide median household income for purposes of the provisions governing expenditure of moneys in the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund Small Community Grant Fund. (5) The bill would make conforming changes. (6) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.