PROPOSED WASTE TO ENERGY FACILITY

ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS

Clean Facility

o Avoid Greenhouse Gas emissions from landfills

o Meet most stringent Air Standards

o No odors

All waste containers opened inside with negative pressure

Economic Benefits

o 85 Permanent jobs

o Hundreds of construction jobs

o $365 Million investment

o Electric Upgrade for Depot

Green Business Center

o Steam for industries like greenhouses

o Electric transmission upgrade

o Facilitate proposed 50 MW Solar facility

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

A circular economy is an alternative to a traditional lineareconomy (make, use, dispose) in which we keep resources in usefor as long as possible, extract the maximum value from themwhilst in use, then recover and regenerate products and materialsat the end of each service life.

SENECA ARMY DEPOT

SENECA ARMY DEPOT

Lands owned by Seneca Depot, LLC

SENECA ARMY DEPOT

SENECA ARMY DEPOT

Electric shortage- “Electrical Desert”

Zoned industrial

One of the largest vacant industrial sites in the Northeast

Federal Superfund Site

In close proximity to two former munitions incineration at the Seneca Army Depot Site

Existing infrastructure

o Water

o Gas

o Rail

o Roads

VIDEO

BENEFITS OF WASTE TO ENERGY

Avoid methane emission from landfills

o 25 times worse than CO2

Avoid CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion

Avoid CO2 emissions from metals production

Utilize fuel we are landfilling

Avoid fracking for gas, mining for coal, or drilling for oil

In the interest of public health, safety and welfare and in order to conserve energy and natural resources, the state of New York, in enacting this section, establishes as its policy that:

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 it 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 can not be economically and technically reused or recycled; and

(d) fourth, to

dispose of

solid waste…

by land burial ….

ECL §27-0106. STATE SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

POLICY

WASTE TO ENERGY IN NEW YORK TODAY

http://energyrecoverycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/ERC-2016-directory.pdf

OUR STATE IS SUPPORTING LANDFILLS

Fighting waste to energy is supporting landfilling!

WASTE TO ENERGY IS THE FUTURE OF SOLID

WASTE MANAGEMENT

http://www.mepc-mn.org/Meetings/2015/Feb15/150205%20Michaels%20MEPC%20presentation.pdf

FLORIDA’S WASTE TO ENERGY FACILITY

Florida is now leading in the waste-to-energy market, with 11 facilities. This facility just came online in July 2015

West Palm Beach, Florida

WASTE TO ENERGY TECHNOLOGY IS USED WORLD-WIDE

Ludwigslust, Germany

WASTE TO ENERGY TECHNOLOGY IS USED WORLD-WIDE

Linkoping, Sweden

WASTE TO ENERGY IS A TECHNOLOGY USED WORLD-WIDE

Lincoln, UK

A MODEL FACILITY

PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM

PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL FACILITY

WASTE UNLOADING AND WASTE BUNKER

FURNACE AND STEAM TURBINE

BAG FILTER AND OPERATOR STATION

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL SYSTEM

The Facility will have state-of-the-art air pollution technology to meet most advanced EPA standards

RECYCLING

Metals

o Ferrous Metals

o Non-ferrous Metals

Ash

o Beneficial use as concrete mix, aggregates, and fillers

o No landfilling on site

WASTE DELIVERIES

EXISTING RAIL

AIR EMISSION COMPARISON

Integrated Waste Services Association http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/industryforecast/incinerators/overview/IWSA_2007_Directory2.pdf-

PROJECT HAS A POSITIVE IMPACT ON GREENHOUSE

GAS EMISSIONS-BETTER THAN CARBON NEUTRAL

Waste Disposal Method Net GHG Emissions1

(TPY CO2e)2

Project Waste-to-Energy (WTE) -31,759 (a net GHG emission reduction)

Landfilling 136,726

Net Reduction in GHG Emissions of

WTE Project Compared to Landfill-168,485

1. Calculation based in USEPA Waste Reduction Model (WARM) Version 14 (2016). Analysisprovides credit to WTE for avoided fossil fuel (coal, gas) use due to energy production andmetals recycling.

2. TPY CO2e= Tons per year of greenhouse gas emissions weighted to the equivalent GHGimpact of CO2 based on IPCC guidelines (e.g. methane has a GHG impact 25 times that ofCO2). Even with energy recovery, Landfilling emits substantial methane and does notrecover metals.

CONSISTENCY WITH COMMUNITY PLANS Town of Romulus Comprehensive Plan

o Project will bring private industry to the decaying depot

o Increase tax base

o Host Community Plan

Seneca County Industrial Development Agency

o Currently seeking “alternative energy” on the Depot

Seneca County Draft Environmental Conservation Plan

o Wants a “zero waste” management model, making landfilling the last resort

o While Seneca County does not have a County Solid Waste Management Plan, the Conservation Planstates that “[t]he best practices are intended to contribute to higher waste diversion/recycling levels incommunities and thus reduce the amount of household and municipal waste going to landfills.”

Seneca County Draft Economic Plan

o “The lack of sufficient electric capacity and distribution at the Depot inhibits its growth as a job andbusiness center, and Seneca County is committed to supporting necessary upgrades. Renewable energymay offer at least a partial solution to the Depot’s energy problems. Seneca County is committed tosupporting the development and use of green energy sources. The Seneca County IDA helps promotegreen energy Projects at the Depot.”

o “Goal 3. Seek and support local and nonlocal businesses that strengthen and diversify the economicbase, expand and enhance the tax base, improve wage and salary levels, and utilize the residentworkforce, without diminishing the quality of natural, historical, or cultural resources in the County.”

o Strategy 3H is to “Enable alternative and renewable energy production, including, but not limited to,solar, hydro, biogas, and wind resources.”

ZONING

“A waste-to-energy facility would be classified under Article IV, Section 1 as ‘Renewable EnergyProduction (Solar, Wind, Biomass, Geothermal, etc., -- Utility Scale.’”

A waste-to-energy facility “would be allowed at the former Seneca Army Depot in either theWITE District or the IW District” by Special Permit.

SITE PLAN

INFRASTRUCTURE

Utilize existing water intake from Seneca Lake

o Seneca Lake is ~4.2 trillion gallons

Waste water will be only domestic sewage

o Re-engineered to recirculate leachate into furnace

Natural gas only used for start-up and to ensure proper temperatures are maintained

Electric Transmission lines will be upgraded

Rail lines and roads already exist

BUILDING HEIGHT

Approx. 180 feet

+/- 912’ AMSL

Approx. 260 feet

+/- 992’ AMSL

Nearby cell towerApprox. 195 feet

+/- 945’ AMSL

Farm silos average 30-275 feet

Nearby landfill is 280 feet

AMSL (Above Mean Sea Level)

PLANTS AND ANIMALS

Acoustic Bat Survey, Bat Conservation and Management, Inc., July 2017

Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species Evaluation, Environmental Resources, LLC, September 2017

Results:

o No Northern Long-eared Bats (federally threatened)

o No Indiana bats (federally endangered)

o No Short-eared Owl

White Deer relocated off-site

No Eagle or Osprey Nests on-site

HISTORIC AND ARCHEOLOGICAL RESOURCES

The Project Site will have no adverse impact on any historic resources on the Project Site.

SHPO indicated that no archeological sites were identified within the Project Site, and that it has no concerns regarding potential impacts to archaeological resources.

TRAFFIC

Traffic Impact Study, SRF Associates, October 2017

ENERGY PRODUCTION

There will be either one or two steam turbine generatorswith a total capacity of about 25 MW each (50 MW total).

o Equivalent to powering approximately 40,000 homes

Alternative is steam transmission to local industries

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