1. (a) The department shall require additional information if necessary to corroborate or clarify the information provided in the stewardship plan and the dealer cooperative shall provide the additional information within 10 days.
2. (b) Within 90 days of the department's receipt of a stewardship plan, the department shall review and approve or disapprove the stewardship plan.

3. (c) The department shall approve a stewardship plan if the stewardship plan meets all applicable requirements of the Act and this chapter.

   1. (2) If the department disapproves a stewardship plan, the department shall explain the basis on which the department determined the stewardship plan does not comply with the Act and this chapter and provide written notice to the dealer cooperative within 30 days of disapproval. The dealer cooperative may resubmit a revised stewardship plan following issuance of the written notice, and the department shall review the revised stewardship plan within 90 days of resubmittal.

      (e)(1) After a dealer cooperative's stewardship plan is approved, the dealer cooperative shall notify the department electronically in writing once the stewardship plan is fully operational. Dealer members shall continue to redeem empty beverage containers on the dealer's premises in accordance with section 14578(a)(1) of the Act until that notification is provided and the stewardship plan is fully operational.

   2. (2) The notification shall list any processors or recycling centers, including the certification numbers of the processors and recycling centers, that were not included in the stewardship plan to which the dealer cooperative will ship beverage containers.

   3. (3) The notification shall list all of the following for each redemption site:

      1. (A) Address of the site.
      2. (B) Name, title, and contact information of a contact person for the site.
      3. (C) Any certification or registration number held or previously held by a person operating the redemption site who at any time was a responsible party for an entity certified or registered by the department for an activity relating to beverage containers.

   (d)(1) Upon approving a stewardship plan submitted by a dealer cooperative that does not have a dealer cooperative registration number, the department shall issue the dealer cooperative a dealer cooperative registration number.

Note: Authority cited: Sections 14530.5 and 14578.5, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 14578 and 14578.5, Public Resources Code.

History

1. New section filed 4-24-2025; operative 4-24-2025 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2025, No. 17).