Item 3: Approval of Non-Unanimous IGR Actions

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HB 2184B Relating Clause: Relating to beverage containers Title:Establishes goal for beverage container return rate. Changes definition of 'beverage.' { - Authorizes Oregon Liquor Control Commission to establish standards for redemption of beverage containers. - } Requires Department of Environmental Quality to report to Seventy-ninth Legislative Assembly on certain matters related to beverage containers. Increases refund value for beverage containers upon department's determination that less than 80 percent of containers have been returned during previous calendar year. { - Requires dealers served by redemption centers to accept for refund at dealer's location certain amount of beverage containers. - } Sponsored By:Ordered printed by the Speaker pursuant to House Rule 12.00A (5). Pre-session filed. (at the request of Governor Theodore R. Kulongoski for Department of Environmental Quality) URL:http://www.leg.state.or.us/09reg/measpdf/hb2100.dir/hb2184.b.pdf ContactRespondent Dept Updated Priority Policy Policy No Recommendation PDD-BPS Ethan Nelson5/12/2009 Pri 2YesVII. A4Support Continued changes in the bottle bill are watering down the impact of the bill in the near Comments: term. Should the City have an opportunity to comment, the recommendation should be to increase the deposit from 5 cents to 10 cents starting no later than Jan 1, 2011. A secondary recommendation for modification is to push the dates forward from 2017 for the DEQ report back to legislature to 2015. This gives enough time for industry to work through the kinks in the system but not so much time to greatly capitalize on any large levels of unredeemed deposits. Staff recommend to support with or without amendments. Any increase in diversion is a good thing. More diversion is obviously better than less. It is staff opinion that diversion rates will increase dramatically with an increase from 5 cents to 10 cents, which should occur no later than 2011. HB 3465 is proposing that the distributors pay the State of Oregon all unredeemed deposits. These two bills should be discussed together in the light of implications toward industry, consumers, and overall recycling rates for beverage containers. 2