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Chief Patron: Hodges
Exemptions to Polystyrene Prohibition (language only)

Item 362 #2h

Item 362 #2h

Natural and Historic Resources
Department of Environmental Quality

Language

Page 420, line 18, after "respectively." insert:

"The Department of Environmental Quality shall develop guidance that will allow any food vendor that is a restaurant or similar retail food establishment to be exempt from § 10.1-1424.3 if they can demonstrate utilization of a closed-loop system whereby 80 percent or more of their polystyrene containers are diverted from landfills and recycled without being combusted."



Explanation

(This amendment requires the Department of Environmental Quality to provide for an exemption for any entity using a closed-loop system to recycle polystyrene containers.)