File #: Int 0697-2024    Version: * Name: Updated waste characterization studies
Type: Introduction Status: 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 updated waste characterization studies
Sponsors: Sandy Nurse, James F. Gennaro, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Farah N. Louis, (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would continue the existing mandate on the Commissioner of the Department of Sanitation to conduct waste characterization studies to determine the composition of the City’s residential and institutional waste streams by requiring two additional studies to be completed in 2028 and 2032.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 697, 2. Int. No. 697, 3. March 19, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-19-24

Int. No. 697

 

By Council Members Nurse, Gennaro, Gutiérrez and Louis (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to updated 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, the] The commissioner shall complete [a] 3 detailed, comprehensive citywide multi-season [study] studies 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 first of which shall be completed on or before January 31, 2024, the second of which shall be completed on or before January 31, 2028, and the third of which shall be completed on or before January 31, 2032. 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 [its] such study’s completion.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS # 15007

03/08/2024