California Conservation Corps: local conservation corps.

(1) The Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003 requires a retailer selling a covered electronic device in this state to collect a covered electronic waste recycling fee from the consumer. Under existing law, the fees are deposited in the Electronic Waste Recovery and Recycling Account and are continuously appropriated for specified purposes. This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from that account to the California Conservation Corps for the purposes of making direct grants to certified local community conservation corps to collect and recycle covered electronic devices, as defined, consistent with the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003, and for activities related to that collection and recycling. The bill would also appropriate $10,000,000 from that account to the California Conservation Corps to collect and recycle those covered electronic devices. (2) The California Tire Recycling Act requires a person who purchases a new tire to pay a California tire fee and the revenue generated from the fee is deposited in the California Tire Recycling Management Fund, for expenditure by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for programs related to the disposal of waste tires, except that a specified amount of the fee is designated for programs and projects that mitigate or remediate air pollution caused by waste tires. This bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from that fund to the California Conservation Corps for the purposes of making direct grants to certified local community conservation corps to collect and recycle waste tires consistent with the California Tire Recycling Act, and for activities related to that collection and recycling. (3) Item Number 3340-101-6051 of the Budget Act of 2009, as added by Chapter 1 of the 4th Extraordinary Session, appropriated $6,700,000 to the California Conservation Corps for local assistance, payable from the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Fund of 2006. This bill would reappropriate that amount for the support of the California Conservation Corps, subject to the purposes and limitations of that appropriation, and would provide that those funds would be available for encumbrance until June 30, 2013. The bill would also reappropriate certain funds that were reappropriated to the California Conservation Corps by Item 3340-490 of the Budget Act of 2009, as added by Chapter 1 of the 2009–10 4th Extraordinary Session, for local assistance grants to local conservation corps, payable from that fund. (4) The California Constitution authorizes the Governor to declare a fiscal emergency and to call the Legislature into special session for that purpose. The Governor issued a proclamation declaring a fiscal emergency, and calling a special session for this purpose, on January 8, 2010. This bill would state that it addresses the fiscal emergency declared by the Governor by proclamation issued on January 8, 2010, pursuant to the California Constitution.