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The Governor of California recently signed the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (Assembly Bill 939, Sher, et.al.), and the Solid Waste State Programs (SB 1322, Bergeson). These bills became effective on January 1, 1990. Under existing law, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (AB 939 Chapter 1095), states that source reduction and recycling are the preferred methods of cutting the garbage load in California. To accomplish that, the Act requires local governments to reduce the amount of garbage going to landfills by 50% by the year 2000 through recycling, composting or by cutting back on the amount of garbage generated. AB 939 of 1989 recodified substantially all of the statutes relating to solid waste into the Public Resources Code and prescribed a new full-time 6-member California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) to administer the law. In addition, the existing solid waste management planning process was eliminated in favor of an integrated waste management process which requires local governments to prepare, submit to the board and implement comprehensive programs to manage waste. The Act also established enforcement and funding mechanisms to implement the law. Assembly Bill 1820 (Sher), "Clean-up" legislation for AB 939 passed the Legislature and was signed into law June 19, 1990. The bill: • aligns the count with the city source reduction and recycling element due date g Y tY Y g of July 1, 1991 • rants a postponement of this 7/1/91 due date if a local government needs time g P tP to comply with an Environmental Impact Report procedure • eliminates sludge as a "solid waste" for waste characterization counts until 10/1/91 (after the Board has prepared a 3/1/91 report, and the Environmental Protection Agency has prepared a sludge study) • permits use of regional studies or data from other communities with similar waste streams in the initial waste characterization study AB 939 serves to restructure the California Waste Management Program with emphasis to maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, recovery, transformation and composting options available in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of at the landfill. AB 939 mandates the replacement of the current County Solid Waste Management Plans (CoSWMPs)with a County Integrated Waste Management Plan with both city and county elements. 3