Section 42968.50 - [Effective 1/1/2025] Regulatory cost notification; fee collection; Carpet Responsibility Fund(a) No later than 90 days before a producer responsibility plan is submitted to the department, the department shall notify the producer responsibility organization of its estimated regulatory costs, including its full personnel costs, related to implementing and enforcing this chapter. This shall include the actual and reasonable costs associated with regulation development pursuant to Section 42968.1 and other startup activities prior to producer responsibility plan submittal and approval.(b)(1) The producer responsibility organization shall, on a schedule determined by the department, pay the department fees for its incurred costs as described in subdivision (a).(2) The department shall deposit all fees received from the producer responsibility organization pursuant to this section into the Carpet Responsibility Fund.(c)(1) The Carpet Stewardship Account, previously established in the Integrated Waste Management Fund, shall be known as the Carpet Responsibility Fund. The Carpet Stewardship Penalty Subaccount shall be known as the Carpet Responsibility Penalty Account.(2) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the Carpet Responsibility Fund shall be expended by the department to implement and enforce this chapter, as well as to reimburse any outstanding loans made from other funds used to finance regulation development and startup costs of the department's activities pursuant to this chapter. The money in the Carpet Responsibility Fund shall not be expended for any other purpose.Ca. Pub. Res. Code § 42968.50
Added by Stats 2024 ch 675 (AB 863),s 1, eff. 1/1/2025.