Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 6677
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 10 Sec. 6677
- Architectural paint: means interior and exterior architectural coatings, including interior or exterior water- and oil-based coatings, primers, sealers, or wood coatings, that are sold in containers of five gallons or less. See
- Disposal: means the discharge, deposit, injection, dumping, spilling, leaking, emitting, or placing of any solid waste or hazardous waste into or on any land or water so that such solid waste or hazardous waste or any constituent thereof may enter the environment or be emitted into the air or discharged into any ground or surface waters. See
- Energy recovery: means recovery in which all or a part of the solid waste materials are processed in order to use the heat content or other forms of energy of or from the material. See
- Postconsumer paint: means architectural paint and its containers not used and no longer wanted by a purchaser. See
- Producer: means a manufacturer of architectural paint who sells, offers for sale, or distributes that paint in Vermont under the producer's own name or brand. See
- Recycling: means any process by which discarded products, components, and by-products are transformed into new usable or marketable materials in a manner in which the original products may lose their identity but does not include energy recovery or energy generation by means of combusting discarded products, components, and by-products with or without other waste products. See
- Reuse: means the return of a product into the economic stream for use in the same kind of application as originally intended, without a change in the product's identity. See
- Secretary: means the Secretary of Natural Resources. See
§ 6677. Producer reporting requirements
No later than October 15, 2015, and annually thereafter, a producer or a stewardship program of which the producer is a member shall submit to the Secretary a report describing the Paint Stewardship Program that the producer or Stewardship Program is implementing as required by section 6673 of this title. At a minimum, the report shall include:
(1) a description of the methods the producer or Stewardship Program used to reduce, reuse, collect, transport, recycle, and process postconsumer paint statewide in Vermont;
(2) the volume and type of postconsumer paint collected by the producer or Stewardship Program at each collection center in all regions of Vermont;
(3) the volume of postconsumer paint collected by the producer or Stewardship Program in Vermont by method of disposition, including reuse, recycling, energy recovery, and disposal;
(4) an independent financial audit of the Paint Stewardship Program implemented by the producer or the Stewardship Program;
(5) the prior year’s actual direct and indirect costs for each Program element and the administrative and overhead costs of administering the approved Program; and
(6) samples of the educational materials that the producer or stewardship program provided to consumers of architectural paint. (Added 2013, No. 58, § 1, eff. June 3, 2013.)