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niformed are completed. The Department’s pilot study of dual-bin collection trucks to pick up paper, metal, glass, and with the plastic in one collection truck has been successful in low tonnage districts. The Department has been expanding the use of dual-bin trucks in low-density districts to improve collection productivity.

In order to maintain street cleanliness, BCC deploys mechanical street sweepers to clean over 6,000 miles of streets. The Department deploys Work Experience Program (WEP) participants to assist in the cleaning of City >se. The streets. This initiative has contributed to an improvement in citywide street cleanliness. The Department’s street cleanliness rating for the first four months of fiscal 2001 is 86.5 percent acceptably clean. BCC cleaning operations include supplemental cleaning of recreational areas and beaches (during the summer season), vacant lot cleaning, ■esh Kills and the cleaning of illegal dumpsites. ; insion of program The Department will continue the cleaning strategy embodied in Operation SLICE (Streets, Lots, Intensive , the City Cleaning and Enforcement) to perform intensive street cleaning in problem areas citywide. In 2002, the Department recycling , will continue its enforcement efforts to'maintain improved street and lot conditions and work closely with other if weekly City agencies to identify those properties that require better maintenance. Also, as part of the Mayor’s ongoing expanded effort to improve quality of life in the City, the Department implemented an Anti-Graffiti Program in 1999. The nvened a Department continues to keep all of its facilities, vehicles and equipment fr^ of graffiti. n January id refuse Support Bureaus , J I October The Bureau of Motor Equipment (BME) provides services related to the acquisition, repair, and maintenance of the Department’s motor equipment including collection trucks, street sweepers, salt spreaders, cranes, tractors, diversion and other vehicles and equipment. BME operates an extensive repair and maintenance facility to ensure that managed equipment is available to implement the Department’s operational functions. This Bureau researches and develops rcent and equipment specifications to improve productivity, vehicle design, and alternative fuel vehicles.

The Bureau of Building Maintenance continues to provide facility management services. BME provides maintenance and emergency repair work for the Department’s 204 facilities. ) disposal Capital Review •acts. As tions and The Department’s 2002-2011 Ten-Year Capital Plan totals approximately $2.9 billion. The Ten-Year Capital iloyment Plan provides the Department with funding to construct, rehabilitate, purchase, and develop the necessary infrastructure and assess to support refuse collection, recycling, cleaning, waste disposal, and support operations. * Sanitation’s^Capital Budget consists of two major components - garage construction and rehabilitation, and funds for equipment purchases. These two major programs represent 81 percent of the total 2002-2011 Ten-Year Capital ollection Plan. '

The Department supports its collection and cleaning operations through its garage program. The garage , program will be expanded and developed to compliment the size of the Department’s fleet and work force. Garages ; and facilities will be constructed and rehabilitated in all five boroughs. The Department'continues to replace fuse and equipment, in accordance with established replacement schedules, including collection trucks, dual-bin trucks, alth and mechanical brooms, and salt spreaders in order to support operations. g on the ncreased The Department’s Capital Plan includes funding for the rehabilitation of its marine infrastructure. Associated iules are with this funding and in accordance with the Long Term Solid Waste Management Plan, five Marine Transfer Stations including West 135th Street, East 91st Street, and West 59th Street in Manhattan, Hamilton Avenue in Brooklyn, and North Shore in Queens will be renovated in order to facilitate and support the long-term waste lie to the export plan. ; :hedules

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