Seneca J^Ieadows, Inc.

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1 Seneca J^Ieadows, Inc. / 786 Sdlcnmu Road Waterloo, NY (315) Fnx: (315) March 2016 Mr. Scott Sheeley Regional Permit Administrator, Region 8 New York State Department of Environmental Conservation 6274 East Avon-Lima Road Avon, NY SUBJECT: Seneca Meadows Landfill Expansion DECPermitNo / Application for 6 NYCRR Part 360 Renewal Dear Mr. Sheeley: Seneca Meadows, Inc. (SMI) is submitting three (3) copies of the attached application for renewal of the 6 NYCRJR. Part 360 Solid Waste Facility Permit No / This permit, issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) on August 7, 2007, modified SMPs previous Part 360 permit to approve construction and operation of a Landfill Expansion providing 14 years of additional disposal capacity. This permit was renewed on November 28, 2008, with an expiration date of October 10, The current minimum site life is projected until 2024, based on current maximum permitted volumes. This application for renewal is submitted pursuant to 6 NYCRR (f) and (a). Enclosed is the application form, and the following five (5) attachments: > Topographic site location map > List of municipalities served > List of accepted wastes > Compliance report (containing a statement certifying compliance with the existing permit; SMI is not proposing any changes to its existing permit) > Description of consistency with State solid waste management policy, as identified in ECL (1). P;\Enginccm-ig_Data\Engineei:ing\Pai-t 360 Operatmg Pcrmit\201.6 Rene\vfll\Part360_Renewa](03,2016).doc

2 Seneca Meadows^ Inc. Mr. Scott Sheeley Page 2 No additional materials are required by (d) inasmuch as SMPs submission and the NYSDEC's acceptance on April 2, The information contained in SMI's Part 360 application for Landfill Expansion serves to satisfy the remaining requirements of (d). No SEQR documentation is required as, pursuant to 6 NYCRR 617.5(c)(26), the NYSDEC's renewal of a permit is a Type II action not subject to SEQR review if, as here, there will be no material changes in permit conditions or the scope of the permitted activities. We look forward to your prompt review of this application and issuance of a renewed Part 360 permit for the maximum permissible term. If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact me at (315) or at torn.hasek^proyressivewaste.corn. Sincerely, Sj&^ECA MEADOWS, INC. Thomas P. Hasek, Jr. BCE'E Environmental, Engineering, and Compliance Manager Enclosures TPH:lah ec: P. D'Amato, NYSDEC (w/enclosure) S. Foti, NYSDEC (w/enclosure) K. Merchant, NYSDEC (w/enclosure) M. Miles, NYSDEC (w/enclosure) S. Turner, Nixon Peabody (w/enclosure) K. Black, SMI (w/enclosure) M. Neeley, SMI (w/enclosure) P:\Rnginecring_Data\-Kngineering\Part360 Operating Permit\2016 Renewa1\Part360_Rcncwal(03.20l6).doc

3 (11/14)-10e New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Division of Materials Management DEC APPLICATION NO. AaiVfTYNUMBERtS) DEPARTMENT USE ONLY APPLICATION FOR A SOLID WASTE MANAGEIVIENT FACILITY PERMIT Please read a!) instructions before completing this application ^R^efcBoiSm ui:ji Piease TYPE of PRINT dearly 1. APPLICATION TYPE (CHECK ALL APPLICABLE BOXES): [_j Initial (New) [x] Renewal [_] Subsequent Landfill Stage (New) Q Modification 4. FACILITY OWNER'S INFORMATION 2. APPLICANT IS: [X Faciiity Owner Q Facility Operator 5. FACILITY OPERATOR'S INFORMATION 3. IS APPLICATION FILED BY OR ONBEHALFOFAMUNICfPAUTY? 1 1 Yes txj If Yes, Name 6. ENGINEER'S INFORMATION Name Seneca Meadows, )nc, Name icneca A/te3dow5, Inc. Name GaryJ.DiPippo,P.E. Address 1786Salcman Road Address 786 Salcman Road License S Phone J City Waterloo City Vaterioo Firm Name Cornerstone Engineering & Land Surveying, PLLC State/ZiFJNY/13165 Phone State/Z!) NY/13^65 Phonej Address j 100 Crystal Run Road, Middleton, NY Emai! thasek@>)esj.com Ehasel<@>iesi,com 7. FACILITY NAME AND LOCATION [Attach USGS Topo Map showing exact location) Name gar)/.d[pippo@>cornerstoneeg.com 8. SITE OWNER'S INFORMATION Name Seneca Meadows, inc. Street [Saicman Road&Rout:e414 Address 1786 Salcman Road Gty/State/Zlp jseneca Falls /New York/13165 Clty/Town Waterioo Town Seneca Falls County Seneca State/Zfp NY/13165 Phone) Coordinates; NrTM--E ;1,145,778 NYTM--M 115,598,845 9, TYPE OF FAOUTY (Check all appiicabie boxes) Ij Combustlon/Thermal Treatment (360-3) Q Compostlng/OtherOrganics Process (3SO-5) thasek@iesi.com 10. NAME(S) OF Alt MUNfCtPALITIES SERVED: See Attached Q C & D Debris Processing {360-16} Q Land Applkation/Associated Storage (360-4) X Landfill (Specify category) Mixed Solid Waste ] [ Recydables Handling & Recovery (360-U) Q Refused Dsrjyed Fuel Processing (360-3) Q Regulated Medical Waste (360-10, 17) Q Transfer Station ( ) Q Waste Oil (360-14) Q Waste Tire Storage (360-13) [[ Other (Describe) 11. SOLID WASTES ACCEPTED: Identify facility capacity and throughput of each waste type, as applicable TPD* Solid Waste - See Attached Table Annualized 12. FACILITY SIZE a. Facility size proposed (acres) 360 b, Total site area (acres) i898 c. Landfill oniy; Facility size ultimately planned (acres) d. Existing landfiti area on this site and adjacent properties (acres] 360 N/A 13. IS A VARIANCE REQUESTED FROM ANY PROVISiOM OF 6 NYCRR PART 360? D Yes No If yes, cite specific provision(s) ^ 14. CERTIFICATION: e. Landfill only; Ultimate facility height above ground level (feet) 295 I hereby affirm under penaity of perjury thaf information provided an this form and attached statements and exhibits was prepared by me or under my supervision and direction and is true to the best of my knowledge and belief, and that I have authority or am authorized-as (title) Vice President of (entity) lesi/seneca Meadows, fnc, to sign this application pursuant to 6 NYCRR Part 360. I am aware that any false statemen^uade herein Is pun)shab!e as a Class A misdemeanor pursuant to Section ofthe Penal Law. ^z Date ^ /.? / ///} Signature Signatyre.///?/. ^ \^ ^ / \ V,- ^ Print Name Dean Divalerio c^ 7 T

4 SENECA MEADOWS, INC. ATTACHMENT 1 TOPOGRAPHIC SITE LOCATION MAP

5 Renewal Application for Solid Waste Management Facility Permit Miy."f^b T^^. :".T 'X '' '^y'"^ '^\ lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. Attachment 1 USGS Quadrangle Map -^^ ;,.&1,i.l^T., ', '-^.-^^ws.-"»-' --^'-s ^' i; ^^^'^^SSi'iS ' W '-' ^f tf' :^h- 'i '.t":. l'iv^ \rf'^/ 4' /K' llj:}-^^\^^./^.^'^w^:i^di ; ^ ''.k..;^:"!f ^ Mi{.W\ <''.;' L'-i ^.".1^11 ^ "^! l^..j^ ii''k}^ '' :til''\l...--"~""l"~v.. I '''<'"-m..s IN I"^-^.^ ^ j^>-;:' ^, ^4 :-^V; '^- ",;.^ J...;,^^^^^ l'.!i. ^.^.^--^.,^ ^ ^.^ J.I?""1"-. 'i _ / i,:...;. ^ ^, ' ~ ^' * ' l'.l. ; '..'' ll'l/;;'., 'F Tit^,.:i:l/ '-'^ "l'&?- ' "&- ;:1 l'^" ' i"i'i. ''. ;! '^' '' ^ '^'^"^^.. S.^ ^-i:^t- ;A>'1!-^11'..i^^:' :1^'.:, ^. ';T- ;'.^.^^ -...' ' 'yi- \ ;i?<i" 4-yfe; :':-1^.'- ^.. 5 E M '.p C A ~1 ^ h,^a,.^1 ^"^ ^...^.^ - --: -r: '\:': ^i,..^t'it \ :1 -y. 'v.*^ '^ i,.lil&^. 'r''fl-'-^^!^-v -~~-i9'ki -^ WfiA.^B :";. '. jf-" \fl'»a.»,y. ^.;,-:,-:',/l 734--^1^ ^. """:^^MMS:i...WN^^^. '':^3^S^..^ - iit-w;-,;; 11' -..'.' *' /f.:t& Siw!SS^ ir^-f ^"N.U: ^ :!^l^te"'r^i-i' ft''~ "^. '.^M/k^.: ~''.'i'-. ^-..'; ''.' "A;". ' ^.iili"'^ ':,\^ ^".'^-l;^^.p-:; Iv:-:' 'tets^ )'.... 1^ '.- > -'-' ' ^ '(-" ' ;'...,. ^.l ;A. '. LM,.^J,;... '^:- ^^.^cale.jll Source: USGS, Seneca Falls, NY Quadrangle 1953, Photorevised 1978

6 SENECA MEADOWS, INC. ATTACHMENT 2 LIST OF MUNICIPALITIES SERVED

7 Renewal Application for Solid Waste Management Facility Permit lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. Attachment 2 Municipalities Served in 2015 New York Counties: Albany Allegany Bronx Broome Cayuga Chemung Chenango Columbia Cortland Delaware Duchess Erie Fulton Genesee Greene Jefferson Kings Livingston Madison Monroe Montgomery Nassau Oneida Onondaga Ontario Orange Oswego Otsego Putnam Queens Remisselaer Rockland Saratoga Schenectady Schuyler Seneca St. Lawrence Steuben Sullivan Tioga Tompkins Ulster Washington Wayne Westchester Wyoming Yates Out-of-State: Massachusetts Connecticut New Jersey New Hampshire Pennsylvania Canada

8 SENECA MEADOWS, INC. ATTACHMENT 3 LIST OF ACCEPTED WASTE

9 Renewal Application for Solid Waste M-anagement Facility Permit lesi/seueca M.eadows, Inc. Attachment 3 Accepted Wastes Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Asbestos Ash Construction Debris Contaminated Soil Treated Medical Waste Sludge Industrial Waste Grits and Screening Hard Fill Processed Construction Debris Tires Beneficial Use Determinations (BUD) Materials Accepted: Ash Auto Fluff Processed C&D Contaminated Soil Foundry Sand Hard Fill Paper Sludges Industrial Wastes (case-by-case) Tire Shreds

10 SENECA MEADOWS, INC. ATTACHMENT 4 COMPLIANCE REPORT

11 Seneca Meadows, Inc Sulcman Roiui Waiwhw, m' I:tl65 (315) Fax: (315) RENEWAL APPLICATON FOR SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY PERMIT IESI/SENECA MEADOWS, INC. COMPLIANCE REPORT PER 6 NYCRR PART (D)(2)(I) ATTACHMENT 4 I hereby certify to the best of my knowledge and belief, based on inquiry of those individuals directly responsible for the operation of the IBSI/Seneca Meadows, Inc. Solid Waste Management Facility, that the facility's construction and operation have been undertaken in compliance with the terms and conditions of the existing permit (Permit / , SWMF 50S08), which was originally issued on October 11, 2007, and will expire on October 10, Signature ^&^AiM^r/ 6 Printed Name Title Date \/^-Prr^/d^^/ s/b/f^ l\\kn^iti<.'t'nn^_15;it;i\'lotn\\vurcl\rciww;]pp.l^()c

12 SENECA MEADOWS, INC. ATTACHMENT 5 DESCRIPTION OF CONSISTENCY WITH STATE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY

13 lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. Attachment 5 Description of Consistency with State Solid Waste Management Policy 1.0 General This description of consistency with state solid waste management policy has been prepared in accordance with the requirements of6nycrr (d)(3), for an application to renew a solid waste management facility permit. 2.0 Consistency with Statewide Solid Waste Management Policy Statewide Solid Waste Management Policy is established in Section of Environmental Conservation Law (ECL). "The following are the solid waste management priorities in this state: (a) first, to reduce the amount of solid waste generated; (b) second, to reuse material for the purpose for which if was originally intended or to recycle material that cannot be reused; (c) third, to recover, in an environmentally acceptable manner, energy from solid 'waste that cannot be economically and technically reused or recycled; and (d) fourth, to dispose of solid waste that is not being reused, recycled or from which energy is not being recovered, by land burial or other methods approved by the department." Consistency with this provision ofecl is also a requirement for the issuance of any new or modified permit for a solid waste management facility. Several modifications to the lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. facility Part 360 permit have been approved by the NYSDEC over time, with the most recent major modification approved in August At that time, the NYSDEC made the determination that the IESI Seneca Meadows facility is consistent with the Local Solid Waste Management Plan and state solid waste management policy. As noted on page 3-4 of the NYSDEC's Findings Statement issued in support of the modified Part 360 Permit, the SMI Landfill plays a critical role in disposing of 15% of New York State's solid waste, and thus the facility is consistent with the solid waste management priority identified in ECL (l)(d). Renewal of the Part 360 Permit will allow IESI/ Seneca Meadows, Inc. to continue to provide this critical disposal capacity. The lesi/seneca Meadows facility provides more than just disposal capacity. It also includes a yard waste facility, a tire processing facility, and a citizens' drop off area which accepts recyclable materials. SMI also sponsors household hazardous waste collection days and has an extensive program to beneficially reuse various materials as alternate daily cover to minimize the need for using virgin soil as daily cover. All of these facilities and programs are consistent with and enhance achievement of New York State policies on reuse and recycling. A brief summary

14 of these facilities and programs is provided below. Additional details are presented in Section 13 of the Seneca Meadows Landfill 2015 Annual Report prepared for and submitted to the NYSDEC. SMI manages a source separated yard waste area where yard waste is chipped and stored before its on-site or off-site use. The chipped material is used on site for erosion and sedimentation control and other operational purposes as deemed appropriate. In addition, the yard waste operation has the capability to use aerated static pile composting technology; however, currently composting is not practiced at the site. SMI's tire processing facility aids in the management of waste tires in the State of New York. The NYSDEC has identified waste tires as an area where additional program effort and resources are needed. The tire processing facility includes a tire shredder, derimmer, interim storage areas for whole tires and tire chips, a contingency storage area, a roll-offor other appropriate container for recyclable tires, and a stormwater containment system. Tire chips/shreds are a recognized product with multiple beneficial uses, including in landfill liner construction instead of gravel resources. SMI has also set up programs to accept electronics, batteries, cell phones, tires, and source separate recyclables on a regular basis at our facility for Seneca County at not cost. SMI has continued to provide support to the annual Seneca County Department of Health Household Hazardous Waste Day. SMI has developed a beneficial reuse program that continues to use various practices at the landfill facility to minimize the use of natural resources, including the use ofbuds, waste tire chips, and yard waste. Specific waste streams that have been approved for beneficial use as daily cover at the landfill include: processed C&D debris; shredder fluff; contatrdnated soil; coal bottom ash; resoutce i'ecovej-y ash; papet processing sludge; chipped or shi-edded tires; foundi-y sand. AU of these BUD materials are utilized based on a weu-established irloflitoitag program to confirm theit suitabiltty for acceptance and use as an alternate cover material. The modified Part 360 Permit approved in August 2007 was renewed in October Since that time there has been no change in statewide solid waste management policy set forth in ECL (1), but the NYSDEC did adopt a new statewide solid waste management plan in December 2012 ("Beyond Waste - a Sustainable Materials Management Strategy for New York State"). Renewal of the IESI/ Seneca Meadows, Inc. Part 360 Permit is consistent with and will help meet several of the qualitative goals of Beyond Waste, including: Minimize the Need for Long-range Export of Residual Waste Maximize Efficiency in Infrastructure Development

15 Continue to Ensure Solid Waste Management Facilities are Designed and Operated in an Environmentally Sound Manner The permit renewal will provide additional capacity for the management of solid waste generated in New York and thereby reduce the amount of waste that is exported for disposal in other states. New York State's increasing reliance on waste export from many of its densely populated areas represents a significant public policy issue for the NYSDEC, and the Beyond Waste Plan acknowledges that relying on other states to manage one-fifth of the total waste stream and onethird ofmsw stream from New York is problematic and potentially unreliable. Beyond Waste also notes that only about half of the 64 planning units in New York State have disposal facilities within their boundaries and the rest rely on disposal capacity in other in-state planning units or out-of-state facilities. "Therefore, free movement of waste is critical to these planning units and the facilities that serve them. Restrictions on waste exports would potentially impact about 22 percent of New York State's waste that is currently destined for disposal." Renewal of the existing Part 360 permit will allow lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. to continue to provide the critical disposal capacity needed for the management of solid waste generated in New York. This is consistent with NYSDEC policy to reduce the amount of waste that is exported for disposal in other states. Beyond Waste also explicitly favors the fall utilization of existing permitted landfill capacity because they use existing infrastructure, are more efficient and less expensive to design and construct, and generally impact fewer natural resources than new landfill sites. Section of Beyond Waste specifically notes that, "...optimizing capacity at existing land-disposal operations helps establish an existing and perhaps sustainable landfill disposal infrastructure such that the state's land resources can be conserved to the maximum extent possible." Finally, the IESI/ Seneca Meadows facility has been designed and operated in an environmentally sound manner, in conformance with the requirements of Part 360 and other applicable regulations. For all of these above noted reasons, renewal of the IESI/ Seneca Meadows, Inc. Part 360 Permit is consistent with the statewide solid waste management policy, as set forth in ECL (1) andnysdec policy, as set forth in Beyond Waste. Regarding local solid waste management plans, the lesi/seneca Meadows landfill is located on Seneca County which was formerly part of the Western Finger Lakes Solid Waste Management Authority (WFLSWMA) Planning Unit, along with Ontario, Wayne and Yates counties. The planning unit's approved Solid Waste Management Plan (SWMP) is dated July The SWMP for the WFLSWMA includes landfills as a long term disposal method. With respect to landfilling, because of the ^existence of socially acceptable and permittable existing sites within the region " the SWMP concluded that "the need for the development of a new landfill site withm the region is not anticipated"

16 The lesi/seneca Meadows, Inc. facility is an acceptable and permittable site that has been approved by NYSDEC on several occasions since the approval of the SWMP for the WFLSWA, thus validating the facility's conformance with the local SWMP. The WI7LSWMA notified the NYSDEC in November 2008 that Ontario County and Seneca County were no longer participating members of the Planning Unit (see the 2008 Planning Unit Profile for WFLSWA in Appendix C of Beyond Waste). The WFLSWMA has since disbanded and that planning unit no longer exists. NYSDEC Region 8 Planning Unit Profiles in Appendix C also listed Seneca County as not currently affiliated with a recognized planning unit. There is no local SWMP currently in effect in Seneca County.