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Subcommittee backs higher tipping fee for undocumented waste tires to ease county costs
Summary
The subcommittee approved amendments and favorably reported S.171, a bill raising the cap on the tipping fee for undocumented tires to help counties manage a waste-tire disposal crisis caused by a landfill ban.
The Labor, Commerce and Industry Professions and Occupations Subcommittee voted to report S.171 favorably after adopting technical amendments intended to clarify definitions and avoid agency interpretation.
Representatives of counties and manufacturers said South Carolina’s waste-tire management system is in crisis and that counties are incurring net losses to dispose of tires that must go out of state…
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