Organic waste: manure management: interagency task force: project approval.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify which environmental goals or planning documents will be updated based on the task force’s recommendations.

Organic Waste Management: Manure Task Force

This law establishes an interagency task force to evaluate alternative manure management practices and recommend ways to manage livestock and dairy waste, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve environmental sustainability.

What This Bill Does

• Creates an interagency task force to study the role of alternative manure management practices in achieving certain goals.
• Requires the task force to include representatives from specified state agencies, external scientific experts, and other stakeholders.
• Asks the task force to model how new manure management practices could work under different conditions and assess their impact on environmental goals.
• Authorizes the State Air Resources Board to incorporate the task force's findings into updates to planning documents aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
• Requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to create a process for approving projects that manage farm waste through composting or selling it off-site.

Who It Names or Affects

• Farmers who produce livestock and dairy products
• State agencies involved in environmental protection and agriculture
• External scientific experts on manure management

Terms To Know

Greenhouse gases

Gases that trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

Scenario modeling

Using computer models to predict how different situations might play out.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify exactly what new manure management practices will be recommended.
• It is unclear how much funding will be available for implementing the task force's recommendations.
• The effectiveness of the proposed projects in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and improving environmental sustainability remains to be seen.

Official Summary Text

AB 2100, as amended, Connolly.
Organic waste: manure management: interagency task force: project approval.
(1) The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the State Air Resources Board as the state agency responsible for monitoring and regulating sources emitting greenhouse gases. The act requires the state board to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas emissions reductions to ensure that the statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to at least 40% below the statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit, as defined, no later than December 31, 2030. Existing law requires the state board to prepare and approve a scoping plan for achieving the maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, as provided, and to update the scoping plan at least once every 5 years.
Existing law requires the state
board to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in the state. Existing law requires the state board, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, to adopt regulations to reduce methane emissions from livestock manure management operations and dairy manure management operations by up to 40% below the dairy sector’s and livestock sector’s 2013 levels by 2030.
This bill would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to convene an interagency task force to evaluate the role of alternative manure management practices in achieving certain goals and to make specified findings and recommendations based on its evaluation. The bill would require the task force to include representatives from specified state agencies, external scientific and technical experts, and other stakeholders, as provided. The bill would require the task force to coordinate scenario modeling of alternative manure management practices
adoption within the dairy and livestock industry under different policy and funding conditions, assess how alternative manure management practices can help the state meet groundwater
protection strategies,
sustainability plans,
water quality plans, and
working lands climate goals,
nature-based climate solutions,
and facilitate interagency data sharing, technical consultation, and identification of research needs, as provided. The bill would authorize the state board to incorporate the task force’s findings and recommendations into updates to the above-described comprehensive strategy, the 2027 update to the scoping plan, and other
planning documents as appropriate.
(2) Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, in partnership with various government agencies, to identify and recommend actions to address, with regard to both state agencies and the federal government, the permitting and siting challenges associated with composting and anaerobic digestion, and to encourage the continued viability of the state’s organic waste processing and recycling infrastructure.
This bill would require the Department of Food and Agriculture to convene relevant government agencies, with input from the regulated community, to create an efficient and effective process for approving new projects that manage livestock and dairy manure through on-farm composting or by selling or transferring manure to offsite users.

Current Bill Text

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