ACP Steps August 2011

ASSOCIATION OF COMPOST PRODUCERS NEWSLETTER

August 2011

Volume 2, Issue 6

“We Build Healthy Soil”

COMPOST PRODUCER ACTIONS

The ACP Next Steps, are outlined each month and posted on our website, at the top of the ACP documents page: http://www.healthysoil.org/acpmarketactions/acpmonthlysteps.html.

The projects that we engage in fall into the following general categories headed up by specific working groups with the ongoing participation of ACP staff and leaders. They are modified monthly as we progress through our annual goals:

ACP Board (& Director) - Leadership, Management and Administration

Communications: including, but not limited to

1. ACP monthly e-newsletter

2. ACP Marketing Kit & Process

3. Membership expansion activities

4. USCC Reporting Loop - Member Types, Info/Dues

5. USCC-ACP ICAW Planning Committee Meetings (International Compost Awareness Week; ICAW-Calif.)

6. Sustainable Landscape Conversion Initiatives

7. Agriculture/Compost Use Index Market Expansion Task Force, including Workshops & Presentations

8. Legislation Liaison (with CCC, CRRA, CRRC, CAW, etc.)

9. Regulation Collaboration (with Air Districts, Water Boards, CalRecycle, CDFA, etc.)

10. Conferences & Presentations

11. Compost Research Actions/Proposals

Please contact Dan Noble (619-992-8389; danwyldernoble@gmail.com) if you would like to participate on any of the specific ACP Working Groups that are implementing one or more of these compost market expansion initiatives. Current assignments can be found on the "Member Priorities" worksheet of the "ACP Steps - August 2011" Workbook on the ACP website at the URL given above.

THE USCC CALIFORNIA STATE CHAPTER

President’s Message

It was terrific to see many of our Cali-fornia State Chapter members at the California Resource Recovery Associa-tion (CRRA) Annual Conference in San Diego this month. I was especially proud to see that two Southern Califor-nia Composters were recognized in the CRRA awards ceremony. Kellogg Gar-den Products and Inland Empire Re-gional Composting Authority (IERCA) both received awards from the organiza-tion. Kellogg’s and IERCA are both long-time members of the ACP and are also business partners. I think it is im-

portant to seek out opportunities for companies to work together and Kel-logg’s and IERCA have developed a successful, symbiotic relationship. The efficiencies realized by the partnership have enabled both companies to exceed in their core business efforts and have created a model for others to follow. Kellogg’s should be commended for their dedication to excellence in com-post marketing and for, frankly, helping thousands of families build beautiful landscapes. Each of us in the California

organics industry should strive to work together to help grow markets and en-courage recycling at every opportunity. I look forward to all of the California State Chapter members becoming more involved in organics issues through ACP and USCC. It is time that we find more and more creative ways to work together to help our state and our communities do the right thing with our organics. Congratulations to Kellogg’s and IERCA! Jeff Ziegenbein, ACP President

Compost Producer

Actions

1

Compost Legislation,

Regulations,

Research & Funding

2

Compost Meetings &

Related Projects

4

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COMPOST LEGISLATION

PR 1133– ACP Work Gets Rule Acceptance

All of the work that ACP Staff and Members have done on SCAQMD Rule 1133.1 and 1133.3, lead to immediate, uncontested, unanimous acceptance of the rule at the July 8th, 2011 Air Board Meeting and Public Hearing. This now makes compost air pollution control and permitting more predicable, and puts us in a direct working relationship with South Coast Air District Staff (see next article).

We want to thank everyone who spent many hours getting it to that place!

Compost Air Pollution Reduction: Next Steps Now we are engaging more directly with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, more directly, as well as the San Joaquin Val-ley Air Pollution Control District to collaborate ongoing on the implementation and next phases of planning and research relative to con-trolling air pollution from compost operations. Here are the next steps of our action relative to the Air Rule implementation and Com-post Air Pollution Reduction Research. The main initiatives are contained in the following Next Steps table on the next page.

An MSWord document that contains the most recent table of this, can be downloaded from the ACP website at: http://www.healthysoil.org/acpregslegs/regulatoryactions.html. If you are interested in continued participation with us on this important issue for the compost industry, as it continues to unfold, please contact Dan Noble, ACP ED (619-992-8389; danwyldernoble@gmail.com).

1930 CA's population was less than 6 million people. Total registered vehicles reached 2 million.

1955 Federal Air Pollution Control Act of 1955 was enacted, providing for research and technical assistance and authorizing the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare to work towards a better understanding of the causes and effects of air pollution.

1959 CA enacted legislation requiring the state Department of Public Health establish air quality standards and necessary controls for motor vehicle emissions. The first statewide air quality standards were set by the Department of Public Health for total suspended particulates, photochemical oxidants, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and carbon monoxide.

1960 CA's population reached 16 million people. Total registered vehicles approached 8 million and VMT was 71 billion.

1963 First Federal Clean Air Act of 1963 was enacted. Empowered the Secretary of the federal Health, Education, and Welfare to define air quality criteria based on scientific studies. Provided grants to state and local air pollution control districts.

1967

The California Air Resources Board was created from the merging of the California Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board and the Bureau of Air Sanitation and its Laboratory. The Mulford-Carrell Air Resources Act was signed into law by Governor Ronald Reagan.

1976 The South Coast Air Quality Management District was formed. It included portions of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

1984 CA Smog Check Program went into effect identifying vehicles in need of maintenance and to assure the effectiveness of their emission control systems on a biennial basis

2000 California's population grows to 34 million with 23.4 million registered vehicles in the state. Annual vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reaches 280 billion miles. Cumulative California vehicle emissions for nitrogen oxides and hydrocarbons are about 1.2

2006 AB 32 signed. The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 establishes the first-in-the-world comprehensive pro-gram of regulatory and market mechanisms to achieve real, quantifiable, cost-effective reductions in greenhouse gases (GHG).

A Short History of CA Air Regulations

Source: California Air Resources Board www.arb.ca.gov/html/brochure/history.htm

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California Air Districts Issues and Actions List SJVAPCD 4566 Adoption & Implementation; and TAP RFP, Proposal & Research

SCAQMD 1133 Working Group & Workshops; and Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) By Association of Compost Producers (ACP)

Purpose: This list, to be updated regularly, of " Issues and Actions" with both San Joaquin Valley (www.valleyair.org) and South Coast (www.aqmd.org) Air Districts for the Association of Compost Producers (www.healthysoil.org), for working with the respective management & staffs to develop Rule 4566 and 1133 interpretation, implementation and air quality management research and steps beyond this rule into the new planning cycle for protecting, and enhancing, the California air sheds from compost and recycling/waste management activities.[1]

Issue Action List (with due dates) Point Person

1. Support SJVAPCD 4566 Write letter and/or attend Proposed Rule 4566 Adoption (due 9 am, August 18, 2011)

D. Noble

2. SJVAPCD 4566 Working Group

Set up a SJVAPCD 4566 working group, analogous to the SCAQMD 1133 Working Group (Fall 2011)

D. Noble

3. SJVAPCD Submit Research TAP Proposal

Write and submit Proposal for the SJVAPCD Technical Assistance Program RFP (due 5 pm, August 19, 2011)

D. Noble

4. Establish SCAQMD 1133 Working Group

Create a Compost & Organics Recycling Industry Working Group to refine interpretation of 1133 implementation ongoing (Fall 2011)

D. Noble

5. Permitting and Enforcement Staff Training Session

Collaborate on design, and promotion of special Training Session (2 day) with Permitting and Enforcement Staff and Compost Industry participants in the implementation of 1133.1 and 1133.2

D. Noble

Co-deliver the training session with SCAQMD Staff (September 2011)

6. Work on new revisions to the AQMP relative to organics man-agement in South Coast ongo-ing

Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP) Revision to include "renewable carbon (organics recycling) management" revisions con-sistent with both 1133 and developing organics industry technolo-gies and best practices.

P. Ryan

7. Define Specific Issue & Action Steps for Both SJVAPCD & SCAQMP Industry Working Groups both within and beyond 4566, 1133 and AQMP

Issue and Action Steps within and beyond 1133 Implementation and AQMP Revision will include:

D. Noble & P. Ryan

Specific definitions and monitoring requirements of 1133 and 4566

Unique socio-economic and environmental (CEQA) implications of organics industry relative to renewable carbon life cycles

Relationship of air quality to GHG legislation and markets

Management practices (BMP) and technologies (BACT) that are best for air quality and GHG compliance moving forward; including methods for amending the rule, without having to re-write and re-approve.

[1] SCAQMD (South Coast Air Quality Management District) rules and regulations apply to four Southern California Counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San

Bernardino and Riverside. SJVAPCD is made up of eight counties in California’s Central Valley: San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merc ed, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and the San Joaquin Valley Air Basin portion of Kern. Counties: Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and Riverside. SJVAPCD is made up of eight counties in California’s Central Valley: San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare and the San Joaquin Valley Air

Basin portion of Kern.

Compost Air Pollution Reduction: Next Steps (cont.)

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Notice of Green Waste Discharge Requirement Workshops

CONCEPTS FOR A STATEWIDE WAIVER OF WASTE DISCHARGE RE-QUIREMENTS WITH CONDITIONS FOR COMPOSTING FACILITIES

Two informal State Water Board Staff Workshops are being given especially for green waste composters on:

NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN that staff of the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) will host two in-formal workshops to discuss proposed concepts for a draft waiver of waste discharge requirements with conditions for composting facili-ties. The topic is not the application of composted materials. A quorum of State Water Board members may be present at the workshops. No action will be taken by the State Water Board at the workshops.

The State Water Board and Regional Water Quality Control Boards (Water Boards) are required to protect the quality and bene-ficial uses of the waters of the state. The discussion will focus on appropriate water quality protection measures in relationship with im-plementation of the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Organics Roadmap.

The Water Code requires that anyone who discharges waste that could affect waters of the state must submit a report of waste discharge (ROWD). The Water Boards may waive this report and subsequent waste discharges with conditions. Current practice is to issue individual waste discharge requirements (WDRs) for larger composting facilities. A conditional waiver for “green waste-only” com-posting facilities was in effect from 1994 until 2003, when a change in law required all waivers to be either renewed or replaced with WDRs. Currently, the Water Boards are developing substantive conditions for a statewide waiver that would address appropriate water quality protection measures at composting facilities that currently exist or may be constructed.

The full notice and agenda can be found on the ACP web site at: http://www.healthysoil.org/acpregslegs/regulatoryactions.html

Please join us on one of these locations and we will learn more about how compost producers will be affected by this rule.

Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 10 a.m.

Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

Highgrove Conference Room

3737 Main Street

Riverside, California

Thursday, September 1, 2011, 10 a.m.

Joe Serna, Jr. / Cal-EPA Building

Conference Room 550

1001 I Street

Sacramento, California

COMPOST MEETINGS, RELATED PROJECTS & NEWS

"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster

its renewal is our only legitimate hope of

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2011 Conference Theme: Stormwater Management: Practical Solutions to

Changing Conditions

Why should composters be interested in CASQA and "stormwater

quality… and erosion control"?? Because growing plants in healthy soil is the "best management practice (BMP) for controlling erosion"!, according to Rod Tyler, Founder and president of Filtrexx (www.filtrexx.com), the only compost-based erosion control company in the US.

And recently Summit Erosion Control (http://www.summiterosion.com/) added Compost-BMPs to their Portfolio. Through the acquisition of Total Erosion Control Inc, Summit is now the exclusive Filtrexx certified manufacturer of compost-based BMP socks in S o u t h e rn Ca l i f o rn i a . Cra ig Ko lodge , (info@summiterosion.com)(formerly with Total Erosion Control, which was founded and owned by Mary Matava, of Agriservice, LLC of Oceanside), is Summit Erosion's new Director of Business

Development. Craig is available to assist with the new compost-based BMPs, as well as Summit's complete line of erosion control products and services. Composters will do well to get to know Craig, because he's finally doing in California what many of us have not been successful at to date, i.e. building a robust compost-based erosion control business in California!

USCC-Compost Operations Training Course Back to

California – Feb 27th-Mar 2, 2012

SAVE THE DATE! (It's Never Too Early)

ACP and the US Composting Council is bringing the Compost Operations Training Course back to Cali-fornia

40-hr, 5-day course includes lectures, hands-on activities and field trips.

Focus on the knowledge and skills to run a suc-cessful composting facility.

Taught by leading composting professionals and educators.

Date: Feb 27 to Mar 2, 2012

Location: Heidrick Western Center for Agricultural Equipment, Davis, CA

For location and directions, CLICK HERE

Cost: EARLY BIRD SPECIAL! USCC/ACP members: $699, Non-members: $799

After January 16, members: $774, Non-members: $874

For REGISTRATION and more information: USCC Training

See photos from the first three classes! PHOTOS

Read what former students have to say READ

CLICK HERE to place a $50 refundable deposit.

INTERESTED? CLICK HERE to let us know. We’ll

send you registration materials when they are available

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USCC Annual Conference & Trade Show The largest composting conference and

exhibition for the composting, wood

waste and organics recycling industry in

North America.

The only national composting con-ference and exhibition run by and for composting and organics recycling professionals, it is the premier event of the Composting and Organics Re-cycling industries, providing industry professionals with educational, net-working, and career advancement opportunities.

January 17-20, 2012

Renaissance Hotel, Austin, Texas

From January 17 to 20, 2012, the US Composting Council will be hosting the 20th Annual National Compost-ing Conference and Exposition. Dur-ing this time the Renaissance Hotel in Austin will attract the largest group of composting and organics professionals in the country to par-ticipate in a comprehensive program of workshops, training courses and educational and technical sessions designed specifically to provide you with the information you need to solve your composting challenges.

Looking for the latest information on BMP’s for composting, odor control,

marketing, research and evaluation? In need of the latest composting equipment and technologies? The USCC Annual Conference and Trade Show has all the answers you are looking for and much, much more! Through the USCC’s six pre-conference workshops & training seminars and educational sessions presented under six conference tracks you will have the opportunity to attend the most comprehensive composting seminar program avail-able.

Join hundreds of fellow compost managers, operators, regulators, re-searchers, government officials, engi-neers and consultants from through-out the country at the USCC Annual Conference, to engage in a focused, three-day series of workshops, train-ing courses, educational and techni-cal sessions and seminars covering composting and compost marketing practices, new technologies and compost applications, policies, pub-lic outreach, program financing, and regulations. An outstanding program is planned with a diversity of ses-sions offered. Critical issues to be addressed at the conference affect all composters and those affiliated with the industry.

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BIOCYCLE GLOBAL 2012

BioCycle 2012 International

Conference on Composting,

Renewable Energy & Or-

ganics Recycling

26th Annual BioCycle West

Coast Conference

April 16-19, 2012

Portland, OR

Red Lion Hotel on the River

With these many benefits and

its myriad of applications, from

the traditional growing of

plants to novel uses in storm

water management and climate

change mit igat ion, t he

production and use of compost

has a bright future indeed!

Compost Benefits Factsheet

USCC– Copyright 2008

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COMPOST OVERS– Misc Tidbits and Cool News

International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW)

Already Planning

Building on the success of this year’s

ICAW, Jeff Ziegenbein, ACP President

and USCC ICAW Chairman, wasted no

time launching the process for the

2012 International Compost

Awareness Week. The new poster

contest announcement is already

assembled and ready to distribute.

Here is an advance view of it. Please

consider broadcasting this to your

local schools and garden clubs...it’s a

great way to keep the compost

conversation energized with all the

goodness, truth and beauty of

compost!

The International Compost Awareness Week Committee, Chaired by Jeff

Ziegengein, had many entries this year. Congratulations go out to Heather

Lawrence on winning this year’s poster contest.

Jeff Ziegenbein, ACP President, and USCC ICAW Chairman and Dan Noble, ACP Executive Direc-tor, published a one page article titled "Celebrating Compost Week" in the July 2011 Issue of Biocycle. If you haven't already seen it, look for it on page 33.

COMPOST!...RECONNECTING WITH NATURE

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CRRA Two ACP Board Members Receive Special Awards

At this year's California Resource Recovery Association Annual Conference, www.crra.com, two ACP Board member companies received awards! The California Resource Recovery Association is an environmentally focused professional organization for people involved in resource conservation through waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting activities.

CRRA recognizes outstanding California businesses, agencies, schools and individuals for their efforts, initiatives and programs which lead the way in resource management, recycled content products, waste prevention and zero waste. The awards were presented in San Diego on August 2, 2011 at CRRA’s conference. CRRA President (for the past 6 years), Julie Muir, gave the awards to the ACP recipi-ents.

Kellogg Garden Products received the Zero Waste Achievement Award, for one of the lowest waste producers while producing a recycled product of high quality throughout California. Accepting the award was Kathy Kellogg Johnson, Director of Sustainability, for Kellogg Garden Products (on the left) and third generation owner/leader of this 85 year old company. For more information see www.kellogggarden.com.

The Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority (IERCA) was the recipient of the 2011 Dave Hardy Leadership in Organic Award.

“From biofilters that exceed emissions regulations and solar powered operations, to “recycling’ and repurposing an existing building, your efforts provide a leadership example we look forward to acknowledging,” stated Jacy M. Bolden, CRRA Awards Chair for 2011.

“Congratulations to Jeff Ziegenbein and his team and to all the folks from Los Angeles County Sanitation District and the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) involved in the design, construction and operation of the facility on receiving this award,” stated IEUA Board President Terry Catlin.

The Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority (IERCA) was created as a public entity on February 27, 2002 by a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) between the Inland Empire Utilities Agency (IEUA) and County Sanitation Districts of LA County (CSDLAC). This agreement empowered both IEUA and CSDLAC to acquire, construct, operate and maintain a composting facility. IEUA and CSDLAC have jointly evaluated composting as an economically and environmentally sound method of beneficially reusing biosolids that are gener-ated from the wastewater treatment facilities operated by each.

For more information visit IEUA’s website at www.ierca.org

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Also, ACP Executive Director has been

working with a Southern California web design and

service company, www.plainjoestudios.comto upgrade ACP's website, at www.healthysoil.org, and make it more "user

friendly" as well as connecting it to social

media of Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. More pressing issues

delayed the July deadline so stay tuned for the

upgrades… the website will stay up, and be

transformed into the new site by early October 2011.

COMING SOON! ACP will have a new website.

Check back in early October to

see the new changes!

ACP Website Being Updated

OUR MISSION

The Association of Compost Producers (ACP) is a non-profit association of public and private organizations dedicated to in-

creasing the quality, value and amount of compost being used in California. We do this by promoting activities and regula-

tions that build healthy soil, benefiting people and the environment.

ACP members work and invest together to increase compost markets and improve compost product and manufacturing stan-

dards. The association provides education and communication on compost benefits and proper use through support of scien-

tific research and legislation aligned with developing and expanding quality compost markets.

Dan Noble, Executive Director

Association of Compost Producers

Cell: (619) 992-8389

DanWylderNoble@gmail.com

http://www.healthysoil.org/

ASSOCIATION OF COMPOST PRODUCERS

Newsletter Contribution by Dan Noble, Executive Director ACP

Newsletter Design by Erika Ellis, ACP Member

As always, we look forward to seeing and hearing many of you at the next ACP Member Meeting, August 24, 2011! We look forward to seeing and working with you all at future meetings, workgroups and workshops to further expand the quantity and quality of compost use in California!

Dan Noble, Executive Director

“We Build Healthy

Soil”