ARCHIVED REPORTS_1993 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

TRACY MATERIALS RECOVERY &TRANSFER FACILITY RFI AMENDMENT NO. 3 ® Operations: C&D debris requiring little or no processing will be directed to the C&D Processing Area which may be separated by a small front-end loader and manual labor and placed in individual metal bin containers by commodity types (i.e., metals, wood waste, and cardboard). Large or bulky materials may be pushed from the Processing Area directly into the Transfer Station for further handling. The inerts are collected in metal bins and taken to the Inert Processing Area. Appliances are taken to the Appliance Recycling Area. Wood is delivered to the Wood Waste Processing Area. The minimal amount of green and yard waste is delivered to the Yard Waste Processing Area. The remaining C&D material will be placed on the tipping floor and be manually sorted with some assistance of a front-end loader to push the sorted piles and to load the recovered material to be placed into small 3 cubic yard to 5 cubic yard metal bins by commodity types for temporary storage adjacent to the C&D Processing Area. At the end of each day, the C&D Debris Processing Area is cleared and no material is left on the processing area overnight. Storage of C&D materials is limited to that day of operations only. The recycled commodities are stored in bins until full, and then are taken to other operations on-site where the storage AEk time is limited to the activity and those specific operations. Tracy Material Recovery and Transfer Station keep an Injury Illness Prevention Plan (IIPP) on site as required by CAL/OSHA. The IIPP is dated December 29, 2004, and is used for frequent training with staff. The 19 page document provides a series of safety rules and training program to alert the workers to safety and hazardous issues. Whereas the 1993 RFI may not explicitly address some of the valid concerns you have, the IIPP does. A series of Safety Rules regarding working around heavy equipment that would apply to both the inert and C&D operations is provided in the IIPP. APPLIANCE STORAGE: Figure 3 — Preliminary Site Plan has been amended to show the Appliance Recycling Area in the northwest corner of the facility. TMR/TS stores metal appliances at the site and contracts out the removal of mercury switches and other items to a Certified Appliance Recycler. The types of appliance accepted at the Appliance Recycling Area would be classified as "metallic discards" that have special materials that need to be processed, but not including u-waste or e-waste. Metallic discards have enough metal to be marketable and contains special materials, such as Freon and mercury switches, that need to be removed prior to processing. The majority of metallic discards are kitchen appliances such as stoves, ovens, and refrigerators, EDGAR&ASSOCIATES, INC. 5 NOVEMBER 6, 2006