Thanks to Debbie for answering Eric's question.  The DNR has just gone through a process to revise the rules regarding the bottle bill and the revisions are probably not on the webpage yet since the process isn't over.  The notice of intended action on this will be presented at the December EPC meeting and then later would go to the Legislative Administrative Rules Committee.  This revision deals mostly with changes in wording, clarification, updating, etc. but has nothing to do with changing the law itself.

I would appreciate it if Debbie would expand on her comment -  "redemption centers do exist and they are a big part of the politics of this issue." 

Thanks,
Jane Clark
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Debbie Neustadt 
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  Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 8:43 AM
  Subject: Re: Response to Grocery Association


  Here is the answer to the question about the Iowa Code. Notice at the top of the section that Eric included  it says: 
  455C.3 Payment of refund value. 
  Except as provided in section 455C.4: 

  The "except as provided in section 455C.4 "  lists the situations in which you do not have to give a payment of refund value. I have copied that section below. The answer is that if a grocery store ( or any "dealer" ) did not want to accept returnables they could set up an agreement with a redemption center and have the department ok that. That is #2 on the list below. Just one more additional comment -  redemption centers do exist and they are a big part of the politics of this issues. 


  455C.4  Refusal to accept containers. 

  1.  Except as provided in section 455C.5, subsection 3, a dealer, a person operating a redemption center, a distributor or a manufacturer may refuse to accept any empty beverage container which does not have stated on it a refund value as provided under section 455C.2. 

  2.  A dealer may refuse to accept and to pay the refund value of any empty beverage container if the place of business of the dealer and the kind and brand of empty beverage containers are included in an order of the department approving a redemption center under section 455C.6.