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nt training Programmatic Review : reducing The Department’s main administrative and planning divisions include the Bureau of Long Term Export, Financial Management and Administration, and the Bureau of Waste Prevention, Re-use, and Recycling. The two operational divisions are the Bureau of Cleaning and Collection (BCC) and the Bureau of Waste Disposal (BWD). The Bureau of Motor Equipment (BME) and the Bureau of Building Management (BBM) provide support operations, r a ! an in low- Planning for the Closure of the Fresh Kills Landfill o enhance In the spring 6f 1996, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Governor George F. Pataki announced that the Fresh Kills landfill would close by the end of 2001 and established a joint Task Force. The Fresh Kills Task Force explored various options available to the City to reduce the use of the Fresh Kills landfill and develop a plan for its closure. The Fresh Kills Task Forde Report provided various recommendations regarding the City’s waste / management programs such as reducing waste disposed at Fresh Kills, decreasing the City’s waste stream, and exploring various recycling initiatives. The Department has allocated resources to irnplement these 200^ recommendations and programs. > i liminary ludgel 1 The Department of Sanitation (DOS) is responsible for administering the City’s waste management programs. The Department has developed both an interim and a long-term plan to rheet the Fresh Kills closure mandate. ($3,756) DOS was disposing approximately 13,000 tons of waste per day at Fresh Kills at the end of 1996. The interim plan is a phased reduction of waste disposed at Fresh Kills through the use of private contracts to receive, transfer, 3,997 ; and transport waste to out of City sites. The Department began this program in fiscal year 1998 and as of March $241 SOOl, the final phase of the interim waste export program was fully implemented. Therefore, all five boroughs are currently diverting a total of 11,600 tons of waste per day (based on fiscal year 2001 year-to-date information) from the Fresh Kills landfill. The borough of Queens, which was the last borough of the phased Waste Export ($5,812) program, was completed nine months ahead of the December 31, 2001 Fresh Kills closure deadline as the recommended date set by the Fresh Kills Task Force Report. The budget has been continuously evaluated and 5,587 updated to reallocate funds required for this program. i

Long Term Solid Waste Management 430 The Bureau of Long Term Export is responsible for analyzing, planning, and developing long-term waste 36 disposal strategies for the City’s waste. The Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) of 1992 ' (updated ip,1996) included the City’s ten-year solid waste management plan. The City is required, as part of the I long-term plan, to amend the SWMP to reflect how it will manage its future waste disposal due to the closure of I the Fresh Kills landfill. ' (221) , In November 2000, the Department submitted a Draft Modification of the Comprehensive Solid Waste 79 Management Plan (SWMP) and a supporting Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to the City Council replacing the SWMP Draft Modification proposed in April 1998, The DEIS provides an evaluation of the potential environmental impact of the proposed long-term residential waste export prograiri and feasible long-term export (142) ' alternatives. On November 29,2000 the City Council voted to submit the SWMP Draft Modification as amended to the State. Oh December 19,2000 the Mayor signed into law Intro. 282-A, a bill to approve the submission to the State of the Comprehensive SWMP Draft Modification as amended. On February 27, 2001 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) gave final approval of the City’s SWMP Modification. Important elements of this plan are expanding waste prevention, recycling, and developing marine and rail based waste transportation options.

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