Notice of Funding Availability, FY 2003-2004

Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grants

Note: The application period for this grant cycle closed March 15, 2004.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) allocated $800,000 for the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2003-2004. Public Resources Code Section 42889(e) authorizes the Board to expend funds from the California Tire Recycling Management Fund (Tire Fund) to pay for the cost of cleanup, abatement, or other remedial actions related to the disposal of waste tires.

Grant Funding

The maximum amount of grant funding an applicant can request from the CIWMB will be $200,000 per applicant (including applications from regional programs) with a maximum of $50,000 allowed per individual tire site. Grants will not be awarded to two agencies within the same jurisdiction (example: City of Sacramento Public Works Department and City of Sacramento Health Department). The CIWMB may at its sole discretion fund only certain portions of a grant proposal; sites that have had previous enforcement action against them may be denied.

Applicant Eligibility

Local governments are eligible for grant funding. Eligible local government agencies include local enforcement agencies, county and city departments, fire districts, code enforcement agencies, and California Native American organizations. Two or more public entities overseeing a waste tire cleanup program as a joint venture, under an existing agreement, are also eligible to apply. A formal interagency agreement such as a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) must be in place before the application deadline.

Eligible Projects

Grants will be awarded for the removal, transportation, recycling and disposal of waste tires from illegal tire piles and areas where illegal dumping has occurred along public right-of-ways. Sites can be located on private or public property. The waste tires must be transported to a facility that is approved by the CIWMB to accept waste tires. Projects not eligible for grant funding include:

1. Sites where an operating business, including a farm or ranch, buys, sells, or otherwise trades tires, or that is actively stockpiling waste tires;
2. Waste tire public awareness activities, including advertising; and
3. Waste tire amnesty day events.

Property Access Authorization and Cost Recovery (Exhibit D)
As part of the CIWMB’s regulation of waste tire sites, the CIWMB generally pursues enforcement to compel owners of unpermitted sites to remove waste tires from their property and pursues cost recovery when the owner fails to comply and the CIWMB expends funds for the cleanup. For those sites with 500-4,999 passenger tire equivalents, the private property owners must sign a declaration under penalty of perjury (see Exhibit D of the application) that they did not personally bring the tires on their property, did not profit from the placement of tires on their property, did not direct, authorize, license, permit, lease (legally or illegally) or otherwise provide consent to another to bring the tires on site, nor did they inherit property from relatives that conducted any of these activities. This affidavit must be submitted with the application. In cases where such a declaration has been obtained, enforcement and cost recovery will not be pursued under the following circumstances:

1. The private property is located in a remote area and thus mobilization of CIWMB contractors to the site under a CIWMB-managed remediation would be impractical and/or unfeasible;
2. The private property is located in a rural area with potentially overlapping multiple property owners with no discernable or otherwise readily ascertainable property boundaries, making it difficult to determine the specific liability of each owner; and/or
3. Where the private property proposed to be remediated is incidental to a primary project involving the cleanup of illegal tire disposal sites located alongside roads and other public rights-of-ways (i.e., the waste tires on the private site constitute "spillover" from the right-of-way).

Application Submittal and Deadline

Applicants must submit one original and two copies of the application to the Board, including a description of the proposed sites to be cleaned up with grant funds. Applications postmarked by December 31, 2003 will be taken to the Board for approval in March 2004. Applications postmarked by March 15, 2004 will be taken to the Board for approval in May 2004. Jurisdictions and their subdivisions may submit only one application until March 15, 2004.

Application: MS Word (86 KB) or Adobe PDF (41 KB)

Contact

To request a hard copy of the application or for any additional information, please contact Diane Nordstrom at (916) 341-6448 or dnordstr@ciwmb.ca.gov.

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