File #: Int 0697-2024    Version: Name: Requiring the department of sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Sanitation and Solid Waste Management
On agenda: 3/19/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis, Alexa Avilés, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Yusef Salaam, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Nantasha M. Williams, Chris Banks, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Chi A. Ossé, Kamillah Hanks, Julie Menin, Crystal Hudson, Shahana K. Hanif, Mercedes Narcisse, Lynn C. Schulman, (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Sanitation to conduct and submit reports on two waste characterization studies, the first of which would examine DSNY-managed residential and institutional waste streams and be due by January 31, 2028, and the second of which would examine available information regarding NYC’s commercial waste stream and be due by January 31, 2032.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 697-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 697, 3. Int. No. 697, 4. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 19, 2024, 7. Committee Report 9/25/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 9/25/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 9/25/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 697-A - 1/16/25

Proposed Int. No. 697-A

 

By Council Members Nurse, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Louis, Avilés, Brooks-Powers, Salaam, Sanchez, Williams, Banks, Restler, Cabán, Ossé, Hanks, Menin, Hudson, Hanif, Narcisse and Schulman (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 16-316.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 40 for the year 2010, is amended to read as follows:

§ 16-316.1 Waste characterization study. a. The commissioner shall complete follow-up studies to the studies performed in [two thousand five] 2005 regarding the characteristics of the city’s residential and institutional waste streams for department-managed solid waste on or before January [thirty-first, two thousand twelve] 31, 2012, and on or before January [thirty-first, two thousand eighteen] 31, 2018. The results of each such study and an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council and the mayor within [sixty] 60 days of their completion.

b. On or before January [thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four] 31, 2024, the commissioner shall complete a detailed, comprehensive citywide multi-season study of the city’s residential and institutional waste streams for the purpose of determining the composition of the waste stream characterized by type of material. The results of such study and an analysis of those results shall be submitted to the council and the mayor within [sixty] 60 days of its completion.

c. 1. No later than January 31, 2028, in addition to the studies required by subdivisions a and b of this section, the commissioner shall conduct a detailed, comprehensive citywide multi-season study of the department-managed residential and institutional waste streams for the purpose of determining the composition of such waste streams characterized by type of material. 

2. No later than January 31, 2032, the commissioner shall conduct a study of the composition of the commercial waste stream in the city, including construction and demolition debris, to the extent that information about such composition is readily available to the department.

d. Within 60 days of the completion of each study conducted pursuant to subdivision c of this section, the commissioner shall submit to the speaker of the council and the mayor and post on the department’s website the results of such study and an analysis of those results.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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