Study; Department of Environmental Quality;Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force; report. Requests theDepartment of Environmental Quality to establish a Waste Diversionand Recycling Task Force to study ways to increase waste diversionand recycling. The resolution requests that the Department work withstakeholders to develop recommendations to reduce waste at the sourcesuch as composting and recycling of organic material. It also requeststhat the Department study potential improvements in the goals andefficiency of the grant program funded by the Litter Control and RecyclingFund, which under current law is used to fund local litter prevention,recycling grants to localities, and statewide and regional litterprevention and recycling educational program grants. The Departmentshall (i) study methods of improving recycling, reducing waste, anddiverting waste from landfills, (ii) develop recommendations to reducewaste at the source, such as composting and recycling of organicmaterial, and (iii) consider whether current recycling rates required by Virginia law should be increased and whether state policy shouldbe changed to give landfills a greater role in the management oforganic material.
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Commending Robert W. Duncan.
Celebrating the life of Mac Wiseman.
Commending Domenick D'Adamo, Jr.
Commending the Division of Capitol Police, theVirginia Department of State Police, the Richmond Police Department,the Department of General Services, and the many other support unitsof the Unified Command.
Tax and economic development incentives forgasification facilities and pyrolysis facilities. Establishestax and economic development incentives for gasification facilitiesand pyrolysis facilities, defined in the bill. The bill providesthat, for the first five years of operation, such facilities shallbe exempt from income tax and shall be exempt from sales tax for theirpurchases of certain machinery, equipment, and raw materials. Thebill provides that such facilities shall be eligible for grants fromthe Commonwealth's Development Opportunity Fund under the minimuminvestment and job creation criteria for grants from the Fund, whichunder current law are a $1.5 million investment and 15 new jobs.
Celebrating the life of the Honorable KossenGregory.
Budget Bill. Amends Chapter 854 of the2019 Acts of Assembly.
Commending Judith Ann White Wyatt.
Indian American Heritage Month. DesignatesAugust, in 2020 and in each succeeding year, as Indian American HeritageMonth in Virginia.