As the Board is aware, the Office of Administrative Law approved the SB 1383 final regulations on November 3, 2020. The deadline by which jurisdictions must comply with SB 1383 regulations has not been changed. Attached to this item is a presentation detailing staff time spent implementing SB 1383 regulations since the award of the SB 1383 Local Assistance Grant (OWR1) in May 2022. Additionally, below is a summary of recent legislation introduced to the California Assembly and Senate related to SB 1383. Details of each bill will be discussed in the attached presentation.
• SB 1175 (Ochoa Bogh): Requires CalRecycle to consider specified alternative maps and boundaries in determining whether to grant a low population waiver from SB 1383 collection requirements.
• SB 1232 (Grove): Seeks to provide a process for CalRecycle to exempt from SB 1383 implementation those jurisdictions that file a successful Proposition 218 challenge.
• AB 2346 (Lee): Authorizes jurisdictions to be credited for procurement of recovered organic waste products through agreements with direct service providers, products from community composting, on-farm composting, and home composting operations, and investments made to expand capacity of compostable materials handling operations or community composting operations.
• AB 2902 (Wood): Extends the existing rural exemption from SB 1383 indefinitely but requires exempt jurisdictions to take specific action to help reduce, divert, or recycle organic waste. Provides additional flexibility for 12 counties that generate less than 200,000 tons of solid waste annually to develop an alternative organic waste management plan for unincorporated parts of the county. Allows CalRecycle to provide elevation waivers below 4,500’, seeks to maximize local benefits of edible food recovery programs, promote carbon farming efforts and utilization of organic waste for animal feed operations, and clarifies that compost and mulch give aways and rebate programs do not constitute a gift of public funds.