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 The Bureau of Long Term Export is responsible to develop DSNY long-term export facilities and the City's Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan for the 2006 -2025 planning period (SWMP) and supporting Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The SWMP 1) provides for the management of all solid waste (including recyclables) that is generated in the City and collected by DSNY and other city agencies and the private sector, 2) meets the requirements of the State Environmental Conservation Law and 3) is supported by an FEIS. The SWMP and FEIS required New York City Council and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) approvals. The SWMP was overwhelmingly adopted by the City Council in July 2006 and approved by NYSDEC in October 2006. Having obtained these approvals, the Bureau is responsible to implement SWMP long-term export programs through the management of the construction of the four Converted MTSs, award of service contracts for the transport and disposal of waste from those facilities, as well as the award of service contracts for the private facilities that will transfer, transport and dispose of DSNY-managed waste pursuant to the SWMP. The Bureau has advanced the proposed development of the program for long-term waste export by barge and rail (long-term export plan). The program includes state-of-the-art Marine Transfer Station (Converted MTS) facilities for DSNY-managed waste and some commercial waste at the sites of four existing MTSs located in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Two other Manhattan MTSs are proposed to be developed at the site of existing MTSs for the handling of a portion of Manhattan commercial waste (W. 59th Street MTS) and recyclables (Gansevoort MTS). Also part of the long-term export infrastructure, the SWMP proposed that up to five private transfer station facilities located in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn would accept DSNY-managed waste from the boroughs in which it is generated for containerization and export by barge and/or rail. These vendors and facilities were selected for negotiations in 2004 through three Requests for Proposals. A long-term Agreement between DSNY and the Port Authority of New York and NJ is being finalized for the use of the Newark Resource Recovery Facility for a portion of Manhattan's DSNY-managed waste. The Bureau continues to participate, along with other DSNY Bureaus and EDC, the Law Department, the Mayor's Office and the Office of Management and Budget, in a task force established by the Mayor to develop and implement SWMP projects. The Task Force has met regularly since 2004. The Bureau managed the development of a new
truck-to-container-to-rail transfer station facility at a site in the Fresh
Kills landfill for the containerization and export by rail of the DSNY-managed
waste generated in Staten Island. The Staten Island Transfer Station (SITS)
began operations in November 2006 and full scale operations and rail service
began by April 2007. The SITS is operated by DSNY's Bureau of Waste Disposal.
Allied Waste Systems, Inc. operates the SITS railyard and provides container
rail transport and waste disposal services pursuant to a 20-year Service
Contract.
Assistant Commissioner - Harry Szarpanski
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