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Highlights From a Decade of Progress
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alCIMA has led the way to many significant and successful legislative changes over the last 10 years, sponsoring eleven legislative bills signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown (2011-2018). Their campaign, Distance Matters, delivered a strong message and raised awareness toward the essential nature and significant benefits of having local aggregate resources. Through this particular platform, the CalCIMA legislative team worked hard to establish and build relationships, educate policymakers and advocate for member needs. Additionally, association-initiated legislation has helped to modernize the Surface Mining and Reclamation
Act (SMARA), while encouraging the use of recycled concrete, and allowing for automation at plants. Legislative efforts have also served to promote safety features on customer delivery trucks, assisted with compliance relief, strengthened protections for mineral resources, and provided enhanced nuisance protection. These changes delivered not only a win for the industry, but also every CalCIMA member, and the regulatory environment in California. CalCIMA has also been successful in influencing policy changes and amendments. By continually monitoring legislation and regulatory activity, CalCIMA was successful in implementing
As a respected organization, CalCIMA is proud to have worked with Legislators developing 11 bills signed by Governor Jerry Brown. No other organization can claim such a victory. • AB 221 (Quirk-Silva) Recycling – Concrete • AB 566 (Galgiani) Aggregate and Mineral Resources • AB 812 (Ma) Recycling – Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) • AB 1142 (Gray) SMARA Modernization • AB 1518 (Perea) Plants – Automated Weigh Tickets • AB 2355 (Levine) Recycling – Local Agencies • SB 108 (Rubio) – Idle Mines • SB 110 (Rubio) Mines – Nuisance Protection • SB 341 (Lowenthal) Safety – Back-up Alarms • SB 447 (Lara) Aggregate – Approved Material List • SB 792 (Steinberg) Mineral Resource Management Policies
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change within SB 375 (Steinberg), the comprehensive land-use planning bill. The CalCIMA legislative team added a provision to require sustainable community strategy (SCS) plans to incorporate designated mineral resources into their planning requirements. While not all of CalCIMA's legislation efforts make it to the Governor's desk, their work continues to influence and effectuate change in policy to the benefit of every member. • AB 2433 (Salas) and SB 389 (Roth) Materials – PreQualification Testing • SB 41 (Galgiani) Amends the Truck and Bus Regulation • AB 1910 (Ma) Portable Equipment • CalCIMA pursued two bills SB 1048 (Roth) and SB 649 (Roth) and negotiated with Caltrans and CHP to allow increased weight for mixer trucks due to air pollution control devices. This led the way for the adoption of AB 2061 (Frazier) to allow increased weight for vehicles powered by natural gas. CalCIMA also continues its efforts to reduce regulatory burdens and provide compliance assistance and training. This has been accomplished by mobilizing their member network to work proactively on state and local levels to help eliminate and/or reduce impacts due to onerous regulations. Their accomplishments include negotiations to remove, reduce, and modify potentially unworkable regulations while clarifying unique impacts to the materials industry that ultimately make many regulations more achievable. CalCIMA's list of accomplishments are noteworthy The Conveyor • 2020 Winter Issue
