CIWMB Ceases to Exist as Stand-Alone Agency

The California Integrated Waste Management Board is no longer a separate board within the California EPA.
Due to significant budgetary problems, the California Integrated Waste Management Board has ceased to exist as its early construct. In its place, the successor agency is now a new department within the California Natural Resources Agency.

The decision to fold the agency was brought about by Senate Bill 63, which was signed into law this past summer.
The new department, the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), is expected to include most of CIWMB’s functions, as well as administrating the state’s beverage container recycling program that was administered by the Division of Recycling, formerly of the Department of Conservation.

In consolidating the various departments into the newly formed CalRecycle, the following people were appointed to positions within the agency: Margo Reid Brown, former chairwoman of the CIWMB, was appointed as acting director; Elliot Block as chief counsel; Lisa Macumber as deputy director of legislative affairs; and Alicia McGee has been appointed communications director.