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Pennsylvania Waste Tire Reuse Grant--Starr Tire Removal
[35 Pa.B. 423] Under section 104(2) of the Solid Waste Management Act (35 P. S. § 6018.104(2)), the Department of Environmental Protection (Department) is authorized to cooperate with appropriate government and private organizations to administer the solid waste management programand to conduct demonstration projects pertaining to solid waste management systems. The Starr Tire Removal Grant is intended to address the dual concerns of removal of tires and Tire Derived Product (TDP) from the Starr property, located in Greenwood Township, Columbia County, PA and the use and promotion of tire products in this Commonwealth.
Proposals must simultaneously remove tires and TDP from the property and, either through onsite or offsite processing, use the tires for beneficial purposes. Proposals should clearly indicate how removal of tires and/or TDP from the Starr property will occur, how any processing of the tires or TDP will occur and accurately describe any methodologies that will be employed. Proposals should describe the construction of roads and infrastructure necessary to execute the access to and removal of the tires. Proposals should describe, if applicable, the manufacture of any consumer products from the waste tires or TDP, or both. Projects must also include a distinct time line for implementation and completion. Projects that are primarily education, outreach, assessment or planning will not be considered. Projects that do not address both removal and use of the waste tires and TDP will not be considered.
Two general types of projects will be considered for funding--conventional projects and technology and innovative projects. Please identify the type of project you are submitting for consideration.
Conventional Projects
The Starr Tire Removal Grant is seeking applications for projects using conventional tire processing methodologies that result in the removal and processing of 1 to 2 million tires from the Starr Tire Pile Site for the purposes of civil engineering use or other standard market uses within a 1 year time period. Projects that are primarily feasibility or research and development will not be considered.
Technology and Innovations Projects
The Starr Tire Removal Grant is seeking applications for projects using innovation or a novel technology (either onsite or offsite) to consume or use waste tires or TDP currently located at the Max Starr property that result in marketable products to be used or sold in this Commonwealth or abroad. The proposal should be limited to a demonstration-size project to determine feasibility of further implementation of the technology both at the Starr site and potentially at other tire piles sites within this Commonwealth.
Application packages are available for downloading at www.dep.state.pa.us (DEP Keyword: Starr Tires) or by calling the Department at (717) 772-8911.
One original and three copies of the completed grant application must be postmarked (if mailed), or received (if otherwise delivered) by 4 p.m. on February 28, 2005, at: the Department's Office of Energy & Technology Development, Attn: Starr Tire Pile, 15th Floor, Rachel Carson State Office Building, 400 Market Street, P. O. Box 8772, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8772, (717) 772-8911.
KATHLEEN A. MCGINTY
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 05-100. Filed for public inspection January 14, 2005, 9:00 a.m.]
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