SB1248 - Tennessee: Environment And Conservation, Department Of, Environmental Preservation, Recycling

Companion Bill HB1932. Recycling - Expands beneficial end use of recycled, shredded tires to include recreational applications such as playground uses, running tracks, walking paths, and other landscaping applications; authorizes the department of environment and conservation to provide grants for such usage. - Amends TCA Title 68, Chapter 211, Part 8. Fiscal Summary for *SB1248 / HB1932 MINIMAL Bill Summary for *SB1248 / HB1932 Present law requires the department of environment and conservation to develop a program to manage the waste tire program for beneficial end use. "Beneficial end use" includes cement manufacturing, burning of tire-derived fuel in contained industrial boilers for the capture of energy, production of tire-derived fuel, and the crumbling or pyrolysis of tire material. This bill adds the use of waste tires as recreational applications,[...]

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