HB 14-1352: Waste Tire Management Reform

• Establishes comprehensive waste tire management program in Colorado with focus on recycling and beneficial use instead of landfill disposal, effective July 1, 2014

• Creates $0.55 tire fee per new motor vehicle or trailer tire (reduced from $1.50 cap after January 1, 2018) collected by retailers and submitted monthly to Department of Public Health and Environment

• Establishes three funding mechanisms: Waste Tire Administration, Enforcement, and Cleanup Fund (receives all fees after January 1, 2018); End Users Fund ($40-80 per ton rebates, repealed January 1, 2018); and Waste Tire Market Development Fund (repealed January 1, 2018)

• Requires registration, decals, and manifest tracking for waste tire generators, haulers, processors, collection facilities, and monofills; prohibits new waste tire monofills after January 1, 2018 and requires closure by July 1, 2024

• Transfers existing waste tire fund balances from prior program to new funds and appropriates $7.3 million for program administration, enforcement, cleanup, rebates, and market development in fiscal year 2014-2015