(a) Any additional funds appropriated by the Legislature from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, established pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, to the department shall be used to administer a grant program to provide financial assistance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting in-state development of infrastructure to process organics and other recyclable materials into new value-added products. The moneys shall be expended consistent with the requirements of Article 9.7 (commencing with Section 16428.8) of Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code and Chapter 4.1 (commencing with Section 39710) of Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code.
(b) For a grant made pursuant to this section, the department shall expend the moneys to provide grants, incentive payments, contracts, or other funding mechanisms to public and private entities located in the state for any of the following:
(1) Organics composting.
(2) Anaerobic digestion.
(3) Recyclable material manufacturing infrastructure projects or other related activities that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
(c) For purposes of this section, eligible infrastructure projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions include, but are not limited to, any of the following:
(1) Capital investments in new facilities and increased throughput at existing facilities for activities, such as converting windrow composting to aerated-static-pile composting to use food waste as feedstock.
(2) Designing and constructing anaerobic digestion facilities to produce biofuels and bioenergy.
(3) Designing and constructing facilities for processing recyclable materials.