(157) Solid waste incinerator means an incinerator combusting solid waste or solid waste in combination with fossil fuel with or without energy recovery.(158) Solid waste management facility means any facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection processand managing solid waste, including but not limited to: storage areas or facilities; transfer stations; rail-haul or barge-haul facilities; landfills; disposal facilities; solid waste incinerators; refuse-derived fuel processing facilities; pyrolysis facilities; C&D debris processing facilities; land application facilities; composting facilities; surfaceimpoundments; used oil storage, reprocessing, and rerefining facilities; recyclables handling and recovery facilities; waste tire storage facilities; and regulated medical waste treatment facilities. The term includes all structures, appurtenances, and improvements on the land used for the management or disposal of solid waste.(159) Solid waste incinerator process train means the solid waste incineration chute to stack equipment. Thisequipment would generally include a feed chute or charging hopper, combustion system, boiler, air pollutioncontrol devices and ash residue system.
(10) Municipal solid waste incineration facility. A facility that is owned, operated, or utilized by, or under contract with, a municipality or political subdivision and which
utilizes hightemperature thermal destruction technologies, including combustion for the recovery of thermal value or for the disposal of municipal solid waste.
Note: A municipal solid waste incineration facility may also be an infectious waste incineration facility.(11) Private solid waste incineration facility.
Any facility, other than a municipal solid waste facility, that burns municipal solid waste, or any fuels derived from municipal solid wasteusing thermal destruction technologies, with or without energy recovery.
The Taylor facility is private, and it plans to use staged incineration- first gasifying the waste,then combusting it. There will be two streams following the gasifier-- a gas which will becombusted in a turbine generator and a solid char which will be combusted in a combustionreactor. Taylor likes to refer to his facility as gasification only but the reality is that gasificationis followed by combustion. One of the major problems here is that the gas needs to be cleaned before being used as a product gas, and details about this step are still unknown as Taylor has notsupplied the information. If not adequately "cleaned" the product gas itself will be a key sourceof air contaminants. Overall destruction efficiency of volatile and semi-volatile compounds will be critical for protecting public health.The Massachusetts DEP has recently extended its moratorium on incineration and included thenewer versions in the moratorium. We believe New York should do the same. See the NewYorkers for Zero Waste Platform, which contains a recommendation for a moratorium onincineration, Attachment #1.
3. We remain hopeful that DEC will deny any permits to this flawed project. In the absenceof a denial, we are hopeful that DEC will make major modifications, include stringentconditions, additional monitoring and reporting in the permits, which are needed for anexperimental facility of this kind.