Solid Waste Integrated Resources Plan

Draft Program Environmental Impact Report

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Agenda

1. Background 2. Solid Waste Integrated Resources Plan (SWIRP) 3. Draft Program Environmental Impact Report (Draft PEIR) 4. Next Steps

The Solid Waste Integrated Resources Plan (SWIRP) is a long-range master plan that includes Policies, Programs and Facilities to achieve the City’s goal of 90 percent diversion by 2025

2007 – 2008 Tasks: Public Outreach & Stakeholder Guiding Principles Events: Regional Workshops Citywide Conferences

SWIRP Schedule

2009 – 2011 Tasks: Policy, Program & Facility Plan Events: Regional Workshops Citywide Conference 2011-2013 Tasks: Environmental Impact Report Events: Public hearings on Draft PEIR 2012 – 2014 Tasks: Financial Plan & Implementation Strategy Events: Regional Workshops Citywide Conference

Stakeholder Involvement

SWIRP is a Stakeholder-driven Planning Process

     42 regional workshops and 3 citywide conferences during Phase 1 21 regional workshops and 1 citywide conference during Phase 2 109 key constituent interviews 27 house meetings 75 business meetings

Stakeholder Guiding Principles

1. Education to decrease consumption 2. City leadership as a model for zero waste practices 3. Education to increase recycling 4. City leadership to increase recycling 5. Manufacturer responsibility 6. Consumer responsibility 7. Convenience 8. Incentives 9. New, safe, technology 10.Protect public health and the environment 11.Equity

12.Economic efficiency

SWIRP Master Plan Elements

1. Expansion of existing residential and commercial programs 2. Implementation of new downstream policies and programs 3. Implementation of mandatory participation programs 4. Adoption of upstream policies 5. Development of processing facilities 6. Disposal of remaining residual waste at local or remote landfills

Expansion of Existing Programs

To further increase solid waste management and landfill diversion

Proposed Sample Programs: • • • Expand recycling for multi-family buildings LAUSD blue-bin recycling program Restaurant food scrap recycling program

Leader Among Big Cities in the U.S.

Source for City of Los Angeles: Zero Waste Progress Report, March 2013 Source for other cities: Waste & Recycling News, Municipal Recycling Survey 2011, February 21, 2011

Downstream Policies and Programs

Address collection, processing, diversion, and disposal of materials after they are generated

Proposed Sample Programs: • • • Recycling ambassadors Bulky item reuse and recycling Food scrap recycling program

Mandatory Participation Programs

Motivate all waste generators to separate materials and place them in the appropriate blue bin, green bin, or other appropriate collection bins on a regular basis

Proposed Sample Programs: • Mandatory recycling separation • • Mandatory organics separation Increase diversion at construction/demolition facilities

Upstream Policies

Minimize the amount of waste prior to the point of generation

Proposed Sample Policies: • Advocate for legislation to make businesses responsible for their products and packaging • Producer responsibility for toxics and difficult to recycle material • • Plastic bag ban/$0.10 fee on paper bags Blue Dot/Green Dot Program

Processing Facilities

Development of future facilities to meet the City’s recycling and solid waste infrastructure needs through 2030 SWIRP does not determine where these facilities would be located, rather, it identifies the potential number of facilities that would be needed

Facility Types

Blue and Green Bin Processing Facilities

• Clean Material Recycling Facilities (MRFs) • • Composting and/or Anaerobic Digestion Resource Recovery Centers

Black Bin Processing Facilities

• Alternative Technology – Mixed Material Processing • • • Alternative Technology – Advanced Thermal Recycling Alternative Technology – Biological Alternative Technology – Thermal

Clean Materials Recovery Facility (MRFs)

Blue Bin Stream Tons per day Revenue per ton Acres required 50-600 $10-30 5 Phoenix North Transfer Station and Material Recovery Facility Curbside Processing Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Composting - Large Scale and Small Scale

Green Bin Stream Tons per day Cost per ton 100-1,000 $40-60 Acres required 15-60 Z-Best Composting Facility, Gilroy Griffith Park Composting Facility Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Resource Recovery Center

Blue Bin Stream Tons per day Cost per ton Acres required 1-10 $100 2 Monterey Regional Waste Management District Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Alternative Technology –

Mixed Material Processing (Black Bin Stream) Tons per day Cost per ton Acres required 200-400 $40-60 5-7 Rainbow Disposal, Huntington Beach Mixed Material Processing Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Alternative Technology –

Advanced Thermal Recycling (Black Bin Stream) Tons per day 500-2,000 Cost per ton $120-200 Acres required 5-15 TREA Breisgau Advanced Thermal Recycling Freiberg, Germany Müllverwertung Rugenberger Damm Advanced Thermal Recycling Facility Hamburg, Germany Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Alternative Technology - Biological

(Anaerobic Digestion) - Black Bin Stream Tons per day 200-500 Cost per ton $100-130 Acres required 5-10 Dranco, Brecht, Belgium Valorga Process, Barcelona, Spain Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Alternative Technology – Thermal

(Gasification/Pyrolysis/Plasma Arc) – Black Bin Stream Tons per day Cost per ton Acres required 7 500 $120-250 JFE Thermoselect - Chiba, Japan Plasco Conversion System - Ottawa, Canada Tonnage, cost, and acreage estimates from SWIRP Facility Plan, October 2013

Facility Needs

Full implementation of the SWIRP policies and programs would require the permitting, construction, and operation of the following additional blue, green, and black bin facilities:

• • • • One large-scale composting facility or six small scale composting facilities Three clean material recovery facilities One resource recovery center Five alternative technology facilities

Disposal of Remaining Residual Waste

After implementing various policies, programs, and constructing needed facilities to achieve the goals of SWIRP, the residual waste will need to be transported and disposed at landfills

Options include: • Local Landfill, Truck Haul • Remote Landfills, Truck Haul • Remote Landfill, Rail Haul

Policy, Program, and Facility Phasing

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1 Phasing assumed may not reflect actual implementation and/or roll-out of specific policies, programs and/or facilities. 2 Facilities may be implemented by either the public or private sector, or by joint public-private partnerships, and may also include expansions to existing facilities. 3 Statewide mandatory commercial recycling for commercial customers generating four cubic yards or greater of solid waste per week was implemented in July 2012. Mandatory recycling and composting for all generators will be implemented locally by 2020.

Environmental Review Process

Development of Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)

• Circulated Notice of Preparation • • Held Scoping Meeting Prepared Technical Studies and Draft PEIR • • • •

Circulate Draft PEIR for review (45 days)

Prepare response to public comments Produce Final PEIR SWIRP Plan and PEIR considered at City Council hearing

Purpose of Environmental Review

• Disclose potential impacts of a project • • Inform decision-makers and the public Identify mitigation measures to reduce impacts

About Program EIRs

• • • Prepared for a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project Analysis will be programmatic in nature Additional CEQA analysis required

Potentially Significant, Mitigable Impacts

• • • • • • • Aesthetics Agricultural Resources Biological Resources Cultural Resources Geology and Soils Hazards and Hazardous Materials Hydrology and Water Quality • • • • • • Land Use and Planning Mineral Resources Noise Population and Housing Public Services and Utilities Recreation

Implementation of proposed mitigation measures in the PEIR would reduce the potential significant impacts associated with each environmental issue area to a level that is less than significant.

Potentially Significant, Unmitigable Impacts

• • Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions (Cumulative) Transportation and Traffic

Implementation of proposed mitigation measures will reduce the potential impact to these resources to the extent feasible; however, the potential impact will remain significant and unmitigated at this program level of environmental review and pending more detailed site-specific analysis at the project level of environmental review. If the City chooses to approve the SWIRP project, it must adopt a “Statement of Overriding Considerations” pursuant to Sections 15093 and 15126(b) of the CEQA Guidelines.

SWIRP Draft PEIR Alternatives

• • • • • Alternative 1

No Project

/Landfill Alternative Alternative 2 Expansion of Existing Policies and Programs - No

New Policies or Programs

Alternative 3 Expansion of Existing Policies and Programs plus

New Downstream Policies and Programs

Alternative 4 New Policies and Programs plus Implementation of

Mandatory Participation Policies and Programs

Alternative 5 New Policies and Programs plus Implementation of

Upstream Policies and Programs None of the alternatives considered are environmentally superior to the proposed project because they do not meet all the project goals and objectives.

Next Steps

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Circulate Draft PEIR for 45-day public review

− Opportunity for public comment − Comments due December 20 th , 2013 •

Prepare Final PEIR and Response to Comments

− January-February 2014 •

Council Hearing

− Spring 2014 − Opportunity for public comment

Lead Agency Contact

Ms. Reina Pereira, P.E.

City of Los Angeles Department of Public Works, Bureau of Sanitation Public Works Building (PWB) MS 521 1149 South Broadway, 5 th Floor Los Angeles, CA 90015 Phone: (213) 458-3296 [email protected]

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