Notice of Funding Availability, FY 2004-2005

Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grants

The application period for this grant cycle closed February 11, 2005.

The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) allocated $1,000,000 for the Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program in Fiscal Year 2004-2005. 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 trade tires, or that is actively stockpiling waste tires.
2. Waste tire public awareness activities, including advertising.
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) 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 “spill over” from the right-of-way).

For sites that do not meet one of the above criteria or have more than 5,000 passenger tire equivalents, the CIWMB will automatically pursue enforcement prior to awarding any grant funds. All phases of enforcement shall be handled by the CIWMB. Once enforcement has been completed and if the site continues to require remediation, the CIWMB will bring the pending grant application for the site to the Board for consideration at the next scheduled Board meeting. The CIWMB shall obtain site access for the applicant, if needed, and the CIWMB shall seek cost recovery from the property owner for grant funds that are expended for the cleanup of the site.

Application Submittal and Deadline

Applicants must submit one original and two copies of the application including a description of the proposed sites to be cleaned up with grant funds to the Board. Completed applications must be received at the CIWMB Sacramento office at the following address by 3:00 p.m. on Friday, February 11, 2005. Facsimiled or e-mailed applications will not be accepted. Late applications regardless of postmark date will not be considered for grant funding for this fiscal year.

Applications sent by U.S. Postal Service or a commercial delivery service should be sent by a means that permits tracking by the sender and that guarantees delivery on or before the application deadline. Failure to do so is at the applicant’s risk; delayed delivery or loss of an application by the Post Office or a delivery service will not be justification for a late application.

Application: MS Word (93 KB) or Adobe PDF (95 KB)

Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 4025
Sacramento, CA 95812-4025

Contact

To request a hard copy of the application or for any additional information on this grant program, please contact Diane Nordstrom.

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