2000 Florida Code
TITLE XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 403 Environmental Control  
PART IV RESOURCE RECOVERY AND MANAGEMENT (ss. 403.702-403.7895)
403.71851   Lead-containing materials grants.

1403.71851  Lead-containing materials grants.--The Department of Environmental Protection is authorized to use funds from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund as grants to Florida-based businesses that recycle lead-acid batteries and other lead-containing materials, including products such as televisions and computer monitors that utilize lead-containing cathode ray tubes. This incentive funding may be used for research and development in methods to recover and recycle lead from the environment; for innovative technologies and equipment to process and recycle lead-containing materials; and for establishing an infrastructure to collect and transport lead-containing material to Florida-based recycling businesses.

History.--s. 2, ch. 99-215.

1Note.--Section 4, ch. 99-215, provides that "[s]ubject to the availability of funds, up to $400,000 is appropriated from the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund to the Department of Environmental Protection for Fiscal Year 1999-2000 to fund the grants authorized by this act. The department is authorized to request annual funding for these grants through the Fiscal Year 2004-2005."