California Air Resources Board

Extends the rural jurisdiction exemption until 2037 for organic waste collection under California’s Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery regulations pursuant to SB 1383’s (Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016) Short-lived Climate Pollutant Strategy and changes how population is calculated for organic waste procurement targets, among several other provisions that reduce the stringency of organic waste regulations.

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Summary

Would have required that all State agencies that fund restoration efforts on Natural and Working Lands to prioritize restoration projects that have a permanent, enforceable mechanism to ensure that the project area will be managed in a way that ensures continuity of the State’s investment. Also, the bill would have required the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), on or before April 1, 2023, to submit a report to the Legislature that details how CAL FIRE will increasingly implement prescribed burn projects to burn at least 50,000 acres annually by January 1, 2025, and how the State will increasingly use, develop, implement, facilitate, and support prescribed burn, cultural fire, and achieve the extent of beneficial fire outcomes consistent with historic fire frequencies and maintaining desirable fuel loads. Held on suspense in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

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