- (a) This section applies only to grants issued to enable registered waste tire energy recovery facility owners or operators to retrofit their facilities to use tire shreds as fuel.
- (b) Persons desiring to receive a waste tire energy recovery facility retrofitting grant under this section shall submit to the commission, within the time frames established and periodically announced by the commission, an application utilizing the forms and following the instructions and procedures provided by the commission concerning the completion and filing of such forms.
- (c) The commission may require that a grant recipient, after plant retrofitting is complete and as long as the number of whole used or scrap tires or tire pieces contained in illegal waste tire sites that are identified on the commission's Priority Enforcement List exceeds 2.5 million tires for more than 60 consecutive days, assure that at least 15% but not more than 30% of the scrap tires processed by the plant each month will originate from sites on the Priority Enforcement List.
- (d) Persons who apply for funding under this subchapter must agree, as a condition to receiving grant funding, to perform community service on an annual basis.
- (e) A person receiving a waste tire energy recovery facility retrofitting grant under the Health and Safety Code, §361.4865, may not apply for or receive a reimbursement for whole tires used as fuel at the facility.
Source Note:The provisions of this §330.987 adopted to be effective April 10, 1996, 21 TexReg 2545.