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Staff Report for a Resolution Authorizing the City Manager to Submit Applications for CalRecycle Rubberized Pavement Grant Program
Staffreport
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that the City Council authorize the City Manager to submit applications for the CalRecycle Rubberized Pavement Grant Program.
The Rubberized Pavement Grant funds would be used in the five-year period following the date of the resolution and could partially fund future Annual Street Sealing Projects for the use of rubberized chip seals and also future Annual Overlay/Rehabilitation projects for the use of rubberized asphalt concrete.
BACKGROUND
Asphalt rubber materials for hot-mix asphalt concrete paving and street sealing treatments has been in use since the 1960's, and is now quite common in southern California, Arizona, Florida, and Texas. In 2010, asphalt rubber chip seal was used for the first time in San Leandro as part of the Annual Street Sealing 2009-10 Project and has been used on subsequent projects with satisfactory results.
CalRecycle, California's Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, issues a call-for-projects for its Rubberized Pavement Grant Program approximately once every year. This program is essential to CalRecycle's efforts to recycle and reuse solid waste that would otherwise end up in California landfills. One hundred percent of the waste tires used to create the rubberized asphalt materials used by this Program are generated in California. Each ton of asphalt binder material contains at least 300 pounds of tire-derived crumb rubber, or 15% by weight.
The Rubberized Pavement Grant Program consists of two parts. The first component is for rubberized asphalt concrete, which reimburses local agencies for the cost difference between conventional and rubberized asphalt concrete. The second component is for utilization of rubberized chip sealing, which has a reimbursement rate that is a set dollar amount per square yard of rubberize...
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