This legislation renews the fees that make up the Hazardous Waste Trust Fund (hazardous waste transporting, disposal, and the state's 75-cent-per-ton solid waste tipping fees, among others) for five years, from July 1, 2013 to July 1, 2018. Since 2004, over 60 percent of these fees have been redirected to the state's general fund, not going toward their statutorily-dedicated purpose of cleaning up hazardous sites, including old county landfills. 

 

The bill applies a fee-reduction mechanism (also found in HB 127) to fix the redirection of HWTF and Solid Waste Trust Fund fees.  If fees for these two trust funds are not appropriated for their designated purposes, then the fees will be proportionately reduced the following year.

 

Addressing the redirection of these fees was one of ACCG's policy priorities this legislative session. 

 

Click here for a chart and summary of the HWTF's redirected fees since 2004.

Click here for a chart and summary of the SWTF's redirected fees since 2004.