California Public Resources Code

§ 42984.13

PRC § 42984.13 Effective Jan 1, 2025Div. 30 · Part 3 · Ch. 20.5 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)Each PRO shall pay all administrative and operational costs associated with establishing and implementing the program in which it participates, including, but not limited to, the cost of collection, transportation, sorting, repairing, recycling, and the safe and proper management of covered products.

(b)A PRO shall establish a method for fully funding the PRO in a manner that distributes the program’s costs among participating producers that reflects sales volumes and the eco-modulated fee criteria included in the plan pursuant to Section 42984.10. The funding mechanism shall demonstrate adequate funding for all administrative and operational costs of the program, to be borne by participating producers, and shall distribute participating producers’ costs in consideration of the cost of managing their specific covered products according to the approved plan.

(c)Within nine months of the effective date of the regulations, the department shall notify each PRO of its estimated regulatory costs as the criteria for those costs are defined in the regulations adopted pursuant to Section 42984.2, which includes full personnel costs, related to implementing and enforcing this chapter. This shall include the actual reasonable costs associated with regulation development pursuant to Section 42968.2 and other startup activities prior to plan submittal and approval.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2024, Ch. 864, Sec. 1. (SB 707) Effective January 1, 2025.