SB 22-170

Senate Bill 22-170, which has been signed into law, changes how Colorado's Waste Tire Fund can be used. It stops the Department of Public Health and Environment from using fund money for fire prevention plans or hiring consultants related to those plans. Instead, it allows the department to use the fund to pay for inspections at facilities that have waste tires and to provide technical support to both the Division of Fire Prevention and Control and the public regarding waste tire management issues. This bill affects how resources are allocated to manage waste tires in Colorado and ensures funds are used more directly for inspection and assistance purposes.

Official Summary

The bill: Repeals a provision allowing the department of public health and environment (department) to use money in the waste tire administration, enforcement, market development, and cleanup fund (fund) to develop a fire prevention, training, and firefighting plan, hire a consultant to assist in developing the plan, and reimburse the division of fire prevention and control in the department of public safety (division) for its assistance in developing the plan and hiring the consultant; and Allows the department to use money in the fund to reimburse the division for inspections of facilities where waste tires are present and for technical assistance and other assistance the division provides to the department or the public related to waste tires.(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)

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