SACRAMENTO (AP) — Plastic bag manufacturers filed a second ballot measure on Friday in California’s fight over a statewide plastic bag ban.The American Progressive Bag Alliance, which represents bag manufacturers, proposed an initiative that would require bag fees go into an environmental fund rather than be kept by grocers.California’s first-in-the-nation state ban on plastic shopping bags was put on hold this year when the trade group placed the issue before voters on the November 2016 ballot.If voters uphold the ban, grocers will be allowed to charge a fee of at least 10 cents for using paper bags.Under the new initiative, voters will be asked to direct those fees from grocers and retailers into an environmental protection fund. Plastic bag makers estimated the fees would generate more than $400 million a year for grocers but opponents dispute that figure as highly exaggerated.“While we are confident California voters will reject the statewide bag ban scam at the ballot in 2016, we know that 84 percent of people believe that bag fees in general should go to a public purpose, instead of increasing profit margins for grocers,” said Lee Califf, executive director of the plastic bag alliance.Supporters of the ban have criticized manufacturers for spending millions on the referendum campaign to continue selling single-use plastic bags.“This is either an admission of defeat — a recognition that California voters support the plastic bag ban and their referendum will fail. Or this is a cynical political ploy concocted by their political consultants to try to confuse voters,” said Mark Murray, Executive Director of Californians Against Waste, which sponsored the statewide ban.Gov.