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ORDINANCE

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O-18-012

Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5975.

Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.

Annual permit fee: $465250.

[1] In lieu of an individual permit for each alteration to an already
approved electrical installation, the Code Official shall issue an
annual permit, upon application therefor, to any person, firm or
corporation regularly employing one or more certified electricians
in the building, structure or on the premises owned or operated by
the applicant for the permit.

[2] Annual records. The person to whom an annual permit is issued
shall keep a detailed record of all alterations to an approved
electrical installation made under such annual permit, and such
records shall be accessible to the Code Official at all times or shall
be filed with the Code Official as designated.

D. Plumbing permit fee schedule.
(1) Residential plumbing-inehidine- multifamily (1 & 2 Family & Townhouses).

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Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Per fixture (tub, shower, sink, water closet, lavatory, dishwasher, garbage
grinder, outside faucet, clothes-washing machine, backflow preventer,
etc.): $6507.50.

Irrigation system (includes backflow preventer): $912.
Pumps and ejectors (each): $4215.
Water heaters (each): $65015.

(e\(f) Water pipes (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.
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Sanitary sewer connection: $4215.
Drainage, waste and vent pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the
application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

AMENDED

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O-18-012

Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259275.

Commercial plumbing (including Multi-Family).

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Nonrefundable application processing fee: $2530.

Per fixture (tub, shower, sink, water closet, lavatory, floor drain, drinking
fountain, urinal, dishwasher, garbage grinder, outside faucet, clothes-
washing machine, washdown station, etc.): $6598.

Pumps and ejectors (each): $245030.
Grease interceptor: $4925.
Water heaters (each): $4218.

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Irrigation system (includes backflow preventer): $4415.

Backflow preventer (each):

[1] Atmospheric vacuum breakers: $4214.

[2] Pressure vacuum breakers: $4214.

[3] Dual check valve: $4214.

[4] Reduced-pressure principle: $4214.
Water pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.
Sanitary sewer connection: $4215.

Drainage, waste and vent pipes: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

4(k) Storm (drain) sewer connection: $4215.

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Storm piping: (per 100 feet or part thereof): $4215.

¢e)(m) Roof drains (each): $4215.

p(n) Minimum fee for miscellaneous equipment (each), excluding the

application fee, where not otherwise provided for by this section: $3335.

AMENDED
ORDINANCE O-18-012

€q\(0) Re-inspection of the same work due to the failure to pass an initial
inspection or the unavailability of the premises at the time of initial
inspection: $5075.

*(p) Surcharge for permits issued after construction started without a permit:
100% of applicable fee, but not to exceed $259500.”

All other ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

This ordinance shall become effective 30 days after passage.

THE CITY OF NASHUA

Office of the Mavor

To: Board of Aldermen
¥rom: Mayor Jim Donchess
Cc: Kim Kleiner

Date: May 31, 2018

Re: Recycling costs

"The Gate City"

Board of Aldermen members,

I have attached an article from The New York Times that illustrates the recycling problem our

country is facing.

As I noted during the Budget Public Hearing, recycling costs have increased more than 100 times
in Nashua during the last 10 months. Last summer, the City was generating a small amount of
revenue from recycling or breaking even at worst; now, as of last month, it is costing us more

than $80 a ton.

Those costs are expected to continue to increase in the coming months, with some experts

suggesting it could increase to over $100 per ton.

5/30/2018 Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not - The New York Times

Ehe New York Cimes

Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right?
Maybe, or Maybe Not

Plastics and papers from dozens of American cities and towns are being dumped in landfills
after China stopped recycling most “foreign garbage.”

By Livia Albeck-Ripka

May 29, 2018

Oregon is serious about recycling. Its residents are accustomed to dutifully separating milk
cartons, yogurt containers, cereal boxes and kombucha bottles from their trash to divert them
from the landfill. But this year, because of a far-reaching rule change in China, some of the
recyclables are ending up in the local dump anyway.

In recent months, in fact, thousands of tons of material left curbside for recycling in dozens of
American cities and towns — including several in Oregon — have gone to landfills.

In the past, the municipalities would have shipped much of their used paper, plastics and other
scrap materials to China for processing. But as part of a broad antipollution campaign, China
announced last summer that it no longer wanted to import “foreign garbage.” Since Jan. 1 it has
banned imports of various types of plastic and paper, and tightened standards for materials it
does accept.

While some waste managers already send their recyclable materials to be processed domestically,
or are shipping more to other countries, others have been unable to find a substitute for the
Chinese market. “All of a sudden, material being collected on the street doesn’t have a place to
go,” said Pete Keller, vice president of recycling and sustainability at Republic Services, one of the
largest waste managers in the country.

China’s stricter requirements also mean that loads of recycling are more likely to be considered
contaminated if they contain materials that are not recyclable. That has compounded a problem
that waste managers call wishful or aspirational recycling: people setting aside items for
recycling because they believe or hope they are recyclable, even when they aren't.

[Here’s a guide to avoiding “aspirational recycling.” First lesson: Don’t recycle greasy pizza
boxes. ]

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In the Pacific Northwest, Republic has diverted more than 2,000 tons of paper to landfills since the
Chinese ban came into effect, Mr. Keller said. The company has been unable to move that material
to a market “at any price or cost,’ he said. Though Republic is dumping only a small portion of its
total inventory so far — the company handles over five million tons of recyclables nationwide
each year — it sent little to no paper to landfills last year.

But for smaller companies, like Rogue Disposal and Recycling, which serves much of Oregon, the
Chinese ban has upended operations. Rogue sent all its recycling to landfills for the first few
months of the year, said Garry Penning, a spokesman.

Wigan Ang for The New York Times

Western states, which have relied the most on Chinese recycling plants, have been hit especially
hard. In some areas — like Eugene, Ore., and parts of Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Hawaii —
local officials and garbage haulers will no longer accept certain items for recycling, in some cases
refusing most plastics, glass and certain types of paper. Instead, they say, customers shouid throw
these items in the trash.

Theresa Byrne, who lives in Salem, Ore., said the city took too long to inform residents that most
plastics and egg and milk cartons were now considered garbage. “I was angry,’ she said. “T
believe in recycling.”

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Other communities, like Grants Pass, Ore., home to about 37,000 people, are continuing to
encourage their residents to recycle as usual, but the materials are winding up in landfills anyway.
Local waste managers said they were concerned that if they told residents to stop recycling, it
could be hard to get them to start again.

It is “difficult with the public to turn the spigot on and off,” said Brian Fuller, a waste manager
with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.

The fallout has spread beyond the West Coast. Ben Harvey, the president of E.L. Harvey & Sons, a
recycling company based in Westborough, Mass., said that he had around 6,000 tons of paper and
cardboard piling up, when he would normally have a couple hundred tons stockpiled. The bales
are filling almost half of his 80,000-square-foot facility.

“It’s really impacted our day-to-day operations,” Mr. Harvey said. “It’s stifling me.”

Recyclers in Canada, Australia, Britain, Germany and other parts of Europe have also scrambled
to find alternatives.

Still, across much of the United States, including most major cities, recycling is continuing as
usual. Countries like India, Vietnam and Indonesia are importing more of the materials that are
not processed domestically. And some waste companies have responded to China’s ban by
stockpiling material while looking for new processors, or hoping that China reconsiders its policy.

Republic Services collecting recycled materials in Kent, Wash. Wiqan Ang for The New York Times
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Americans recycle roughly 66 million tons of material each year, according to the most recent
figures from the Environmental Protection Agency, about one-third of which is exported. The
majority of those exports once went to China, said David Biderman, the executive director of the
Solid Waste Association of North America, a research and advocacy group.

But American scrap exports to China fell by about 35 percent in the first two months of this year,
after the ban was implemented, said Joseph Pickard, chief economist for the Institute of Scrap
Recycling Industries, a trade group.

“It’s a huge concern, because China has just been such a dominant overseas market for us,” Mr.
Pickard said.

In particular, exports of scrap plastic to China, valued at more than $300 million in 2015, totaled

just $7.6 million in the first quarter of this year, down 90 percent from a year earlier, Mr. Pickard
said. Other countries have stepped in to accept more plastics, but total scrap plastic exports are
still down by 40 percent this year, he said.

“There is a significant disruption occurring to U.S. recycling programs,” Mr. Biderman said. “The
concern is if this is the new normal.”

Curbside recycling is typically hauled by a private company to a sorting plant, where marketable
goods are separated out. Companies or local governments then sell the goods to domestic or
overseas processors. Some states and cities prohibit these companies from dumping plastic,
paper and cardboard, but some local officials — including in Oregon, Massachusetts and various
municipalities in Washington State — have granted waivers so that unmarketable materials can
be sent to the landfill.

Recycling companies “used to get paid” by selling off recyclable materials, said Peter Spendelow,
a policy analyst for the Department of Environmental Quality in Oregon. “Now they’re paying to
have someone take it away.”

In some places, including parts of Idaho, Maine and Pennsylvania, waste managers are
continuing to recycle but are passing higher costs on to customers, or are considering doing so.

“There are some states and some markets where mixed paper is at a negative value,” said Brent
Bell, vice president of recycling at Waste Management, which handles 10 million tons of recycling
per year. “We'll let our customers make that decision, if they’d like to pay more and continue to
recycle or to pay less and have it go to landfill.”

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Wigan Ang for The New York Times

Mr. Spendelow said companies in rural areas, which tend to have higher expenses to get their
materials to market, were being hit particularly hard. “They’re literally taking trucks straight to
the landfill,” he said.

Will Posegate, the chief operations officer for Garten Services, which processes recycling for a
number of counties in Oregon, said his company had tried to stockpile recyclables but eventually
used a waiver to dump roughly 900 tons. “The warehouse builds up so much that it’s unsafe,” he
said.

In California, officials are concerned that improperly stored bales of paper could become hazards
during wildfire season, said Zoe Heller, the policy director for the state’s recycling department.

While China has entirely banned 24 materials, including post-consumer plastic and mixed paper,
it has also demanded that other materials, such as cardboard and scrap metal, be only 0.5 percent
impure. Even a small amount of food scraps or other rubbish, if undetected, can ruin a batch of
recycling.

Some waste managers say that China’s new contamination standards are impossible to meet,
while others are trying to clean up their recycling streams by slowing down their processing
facilities, limiting the types of materials they accept or trying to better educate customers on what
belongs in the recycling bin.

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Waste traveling along a conveyor belt to be sorted. Wiqan Ang for The New York Times

Mr. Bell, the Waste Management executive, said he had seen everything from Christmas lights to
animal carcasses to artillery shells come through the company’s recycling facilities. “Most of our
facilities get a bowling ball every day or two,” he said.

Some materials can ruin a load, he said, while others pose fire or health hazards and can force
facilities to slow their operations and in some cases temporarily shut down. (And a bowling ball
could do serious damage to the equipment.) Approximately 25 percent of all recycling picked up
by Waste Management is contaminated to the point that it is sent to landfills, Mr. Bell said.

Recyclers have always disposed of some of their materials. But the percentage has climbed as
China and other buyers of recyclable material have ratcheted up quality standards.

Most contamination, Mr. Bell said, happens when people try to recycle materials they shouldn’t.
Disposable coffee cups — which are usually lined with a thin film that makes them liquid-proof
but challenging and expensive to reprocess — are an example. Unwashed plastics can also cause
contamination.

“If we don’t get it clean, we’re not going to be able to market it, and if we can’t market it
unfortunately it’s going to go to the landfill,” said Mr. Penning, the Rogue spokesman. In March,
Rogue told customers to put everything in the trash except for corrugated cardboard, milk jugs,
newspapers and tin and aluminum cans, which the company is finding domestic markets for, Mr.
Penning said.

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