Int. No. 697
By Council Members Nurse, Gennaro, Gutiérrez, Louis, Avilés, Brooks-Powers, Salaam, Sanchez, Williams, Banks, Restler, Cabán, Ossé, Hanks, Menin, Hudson and Hanif (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.
MBB
LS # 15007
03/08/2024