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5.__Documentation.__Documentation of the willingness of all
parties involved in the producer's product recovery program to
implement the proposed electronic equipment recovery and
assurance that that system will comply with all applicable
existing environmental laws and rules in the State;

 
6.__Performance measures.__A description of the performance
measures to be used and reported by the producer to the
department to demonstrate that the recovery system is meeting
reuse and recycling rates under section 1319-GG, subsections 1
and 2, as well as other measures of the program's
effectiveness as may be required by the department by rule.__
Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine
technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter
2-A; and

 
7.__Alternative actions.__A description of the alternative
or additional actions that will be implemented by the producer
to improve the recovery system in the event that the program
targets are not met.

 
Within 12 months of the effective date of this section, or
upon approval of the plan, whichever is sooner, a producer of
electronic equipment sold in the State shall provide to the
department a financial guarantee to ensure that no costs for
program evaluation or enforcement or for the management of
orphaned waste and historic waste are borne by taxpayers.

 
Any producer that fails to meet any of the requirements of
this section within the required time frames is prohibited
from selling electronic equipment in the State.

 
§1319-CC.__Financial responsibility of producers

 
1.__Product recovery program.__Within 24 months of the
effective date of this section, each producer shall implement
a program for ensuring the environmentally sound collection,
treatment, recovery and final disposition of electronic waste.

 
2.__Financing for producer's products.__A producer is
responsible for financing the environmentally sound management
of the electronic waste from its own products, but may execute
this obligation through collective or individual financing
schemes.

 
3.__Financing for orphaned waste and historic waste.__The
responsibility for financing the management of orphaned waste
and historic waste equipment must be shared proportionally to
each producer's respective share of the market, by product
type, at the time waste costs are incurred.__The department on
an annual basis may adjust this proportional responsibility
for orphaned waste and historic waste.


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