The Florida Senate

403.719  Waste tire grants.--

(1)  The department shall administer a program to make grants to counties that seek, individually or collectively, to:

(a)  Construct or operate, or contract for the construction or operation of, a waste tire processing facility and equipment purchases therefor;

(b)  Contract for a waste tire processing facility service within or outside the county or state;

(c)  Collect and remove, or contract for the collection and removal of, waste tires from waste tire piles or other areas within the county. Removal of waste tires may include transportation outside the county, region, or state;

(d)  Perform, or contract for the performance of, research designed to facilitate waste tire recycling and to operate recycling and education programs;

(e)  Establish waste tire collection centers at solid waste disposal facilities or waste tire processing facilities;

(f)  Provide incentives for establishing privately operated waste tire collection centers for the public;

(g)  Perform, or contract for the performance of, enforcement and prevention activities to prevent the illegal transportation and disposal of waste tires and other solid waste materials;

(h)  Purchase materials and products made from waste tires that are collected and recycled within this state;

(i)  Counties with populations less than 75,000 may use waste tire grants for any solid waste related purpose; or

(j)  In addition to the use specified in paragraph (c), abate mosquitoes and provide mosquito control at waste tire sites, other tire piles, and other sites in the county identified by local mosquito control agencies as mosquito breeding areas.

(2)  Each county is eligible for a proportionate share, based on population, of the available funds from revenues from waste tire fees. Counties may join together, pooling their financial resources, when expending their grant moneys for the purposes in subsection (1). Each county, or association of counties, receiving grant moneys for purposes specified in subsection (1) shall submit an annual report to the department accounting for the use of such grant moneys.

(3)  The department shall provide technical assistance, upon request, to a county or groups of counties seeking assistance in applying for waste tire grants or choosing a method of waste tire management which would be eligible for a grant.

History.--s. 43, ch. 88-130; s. 13, ch. 92-290; s. 27, ch. 93-207; s. 4, ch. 95-311; s. 18, ch. 98-258.