HD30 - Report on the Funding Sources Available to Small Businesses for Scrap Tire Processes


Executive Summary:
House Joint Resolution (HJR) No. 536 enacted by the 1999 General Assembly (Appendix 1) acknowledged the problems dealing with waste vehicle tires in Virginia and identified one management option, whole tire incineration, which may provide cost effective methods to beneficially use those tires.

HJR No. 536 directed the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), in cooperation with the Department of Business Assistance (DBA), to:

1. identify funding sources available to small businesses to assist them in developing technologies to eliminate the scrap tire problem in Virginia, and

2. make recommendations concerning the creation of additional and/or the expansion of existing funding sources.