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Waste Tire issues

Waste Tire Working Group December 3, 2013. Waste Tire issues. Waste Tire Issues. Fee Expires June 30, 2014 Gap in Fee Collections Regulating Used Tires Draft Annual Report Review. Should the fee be extended beyond June 30, 2014?. Extending the Fee?. Background. 2002, 2006

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Waste Tire issues

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  1. Waste Tire Working Group December 3, 2013 Waste Tire issues

  2. Waste Tire Issues • Fee Expires June 30, 2014 • Gap in Fee Collections • Regulating Used Tires • Draft Annual Report Review

  3. Should the fee be extended beyond June 30, 2014? Extending the Fee?

  4. Background • 2002, 2006 • Four year extension for $1 per tire fee • 2010, 2012 • Two year extension as part of budget bill • Sunsets July 1, 2014

  5. States that discontinued program: • Reappearance of illegal tire dumps and fires • Legislature faced with huge remediation costs • Los Reales Landfill Tire Fire Tucson AZ 1989 Rick Wiley

  6. Fee Continuation • 36 states have a fee (RMA 2011) • Median fee is $1 • Highest is $2.50 (AK, IL, NY) • Lowest is $0.25 (IN)

  7. Fee Continuation • State Experience with no fee • MN: • Tip fee up (for disposal or recycling) • Monofilling • WI: • Provided $20/ton subsidy with fee • TDF market crashed without fee

  8. Fee Continuation • State Experience with no fee • TX: • $9.5M general funds to clean up two piles, buy 2 TDF metering systems • Land reclamation • MO: • No fee two years, no licensing • Several fires • Fee reinstated for five years in 2009

  9. Recycling Rate Waste Tire Management program Closure-Precedents/Experience in Other States, 2010, TAG Resource Recovery

  10. Fee Discontinuation in KY • No state-wide amnesties • Counties do not have $ to clean up • Rural areas adversely impacted • $3,000 annual grants to counties would end

  11. Fee Discontinuation in KY • No crumb rubber grants • Cities, counties, schools use for playgrounds • Past to present: • EEC awarded 315 grants totaling $6.8 M since FY 2004 • Awarded 20 grants for $300,854 in FY 2012

  12. FY2013 Crumb Rubber Grant Recipients

  13. Fee Discontinuation in KY • No market development • Rubberized pavement pilot projects would cease • Future auto parts and rubber products market would not be initiated

  14. Fee Continuation • Cabinet hopes to insert in Budget Bill • 2-year extension • Less controversial than separate bill

  15. What can be done to collect more fees? Gap in Fee Collections

  16. Fee Receipts

  17. Fee Gap • Revenue recovered 74% of available fee

  18. Fiscal Issues: • Dept. of Revenue: • Receives $50,000 per year flat fee • Not enough to collect tire fee (less than1 person) • No incentive, like a %, to recover tire fee • DEP: • Could visit retailers and check records • Lacks audit authority

  19. What can be done to regulate used tires? Used Tires

  20. Used Tires: • 20-25 M sold in U.S. each year per RMA • 8-11% replacement tires • Many may end up in dumps • RMA: 88% of all tires repaired improperly http://www.rma.org/tire-safety/tire-repair/ • 220 M flat tires per year says answers.com (about 100% lifetime rate based on 242 M vehicles)

  21. Used Tires: • KY: • 385,000 PTEs resold annually (280,000 tires) • Safety Issue • KRS 224.50-854(2) exempts storage of waste tires for resale • 224.50-868(2)(c) encourages reuse of waste tire “for its originally intended purpose”.

  22. Used Tires: • RMA says used tire should not be sold when the following is present: • Less than 2/32 inch tread depth • A penetration wider than ¼ inch or not sealed from inside • Any innerliner or bead damage • Bulges or local areas of irregular/fast treadwear

  23. Used Tires: • RMA says used tire should not be sold when the following is present: • Run-flat, under inflated and/or overloaded damage • Any cuts, cracks, bulges, scrapes, etc. • Defaced or removed DOT tire identification number (TIN) • See http://www.rma.org/tire-safety/used-tires/

  24. Used Tires: • KY Options • Change Transportation, EEC law • Retailers inspect tires stored for resale against RMA standards • Revise Notice to Consumer: http://waste.ky.gov/RLA/Waste%20Tires/Documents/Waste%20Tire%20Fact%20Sheets%20for%20Consumer11-20-08.pdf

  25. When will draft be available for review? Annual Report

  26. Annual Report: • Recycling and disposal numbers for January 1 to November 30, 2013 • Estimate December 2013 • Draft annual report available January 2, 2014 • Comments needed by January 9, 2014 • Final due to LRC January 15, 2014

  27. Waste Tire Issues George F. Gilbert, P.E. Environmental Engineer Consultant Director’s Office Division of Waste Management (502) 564-6716 george.gilbert@ky.gov Terry Gray TAG Resource Recovery Houston TX

  28. Waste Tire Report • Other Contributors: Ricky Solomon, Supervisor Recycling Section Recycling and Local Assistance Branch Division of Waste Management Lisa Evans Local Assistance Section Recycling and Local Assistance Branch Division of Waste Management

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