North Carolina SB 706: County Waste Management Assistance.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2025-66
SENATE BILL 706

*S706-v-5*
AN ACT TO RESTORE ASSISTANCE TO COUNTIES WITH THE CLEANUP OF SCRAP
TIRES. CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a) G.S. 105-187.19(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) Each quarter, the Secretary shall credit thirty percent (30%) of the net tax proceeds to
the General Fund. Scrap Tire Disposal Account. In the event the amount in the Account exceeds
three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) at the end of any fiscal year, such excess shall be
credited to the Highway Fund. The Secretary shall distribute the remaining seventy percent (70%)
of the net tax proceeds among the counties on a per capita basis according to the most recent
annual population estimates certified to the Secretary by the State Budget Officer."
SECTION 1.(b) G.S. 130A-309.63 as it existed immediately prior to repeal is
reenacted and reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-309.63. Scrap Tire Disposal Account.
(a) Creation. – The Scrap Tire Disposal Account is established as a nonreverting account
within the Department. Department of Environmental Quality. The Account consists of revenue
credited to the Account from the proceeds of the scrap tire disposal tax imposed by Article 5B of
Chapter 105 of the General Statutes.
(b) Use. – The Department may use revenue in the Account only as authorized by this
section.
(1) The Department may use up to fifty percent (50%) seventy-five percent (75%)
of the revenue in the Account to make grants to units of local government to
assist them in disposing of scrap tires. To administer the grants, the
Department shall establish procedures for applying for a grant and the criteria
for selecting among grant applicants. The criteria shall include the financial
ability of a unit of local government to provide for scrap tire disposal, the
severity of a unit of local government's scrap tire disposal problem, the effort
made by a unit of local government to ensure that only tires generated in the
normal course of business in this State are provided free disposal, and the
effort made by a unit of local government to provide for scrap tire disposal
within the resources available to it.
(2) The Department may use up to forty percent (40%) fifteen percent (15%) of
the revenue in the Account to make grants to encourage the use of processed
scrap tire materials. These grants may be made to encourage the use of
tire-derived fuel, crumb rubber, carbon black, or other components of tires for
use in products such as fuel, tires, mats, auto parts, gaskets, flooring material,
or other applications of processed tire materials. These grants shall be made
in consultation with the Department of Commerce, the Division of
Environmental Assistance and Outreach of the Department, and, where
appropriate, the Department of Transportation. Grants to encourage the use of
processed scrap tire materials shall not be used to process tires.

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(3) The Department may use up to one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars
($175,000) of the revenue in the Account for administrative costs and to
support a position to provide local governments with assistance in developing
and implementing scrap tire management programs designed to complete the
cleanup of nuisance tire collection sites and prevent scrap tires generated from
outside of the State from being presented for free disposal in the State.position
for implementation of the requirements of this Part.
(4) The Department may use the remaining revenue in the Account only to clean
up illegal scrap tire collection sites that the Department has determined are a
nuisance. The Department may use funds in the Account to clean up a
nuisance tire collection site only if no other funds are available for that
purpose.
(c) Eligibility. – A unit of local government is not eligible for a grant for scrap tire
disposal unless its costs for disposing of scrap tires for the six-month period preceding the date
the unit of local government files an application for a grant exceeded the amount the unit of local
government received during that period from the proceeds of the scrap tire tax under
G.S. 105-187.19. A grant to a unit of local government for scrap tire disposal may not exceed the
unit of local government's unreimbursed cost for the six-month period.
(e)(d) Reporting. – The Department shall include in the report to be delivered to the
Environmental Review Commission on or before 15 January of each year pursuant to
G.S. 130A-309.06(c) a description of the implementation of the North Carolina Scrap Tire
Disposal Act for the fiscal year ending the preceding 30 June. June 30. The description of the
implementation of the North Carolina Scrap Tire Disposal Act shall include the beginning and
ending balances in the Account for the reporting period, the amount credited to the Account
during the reporting period, and the amount of revenue used for grants and