Construction & Demolition Debris Handling and Recovery Facilities
A construction & demolition debris handling and recovery facility (CDDHRF) is a publicly or privately owned facility that receives uncontaminated construction and demolition debris (C&D debris) generated/excavated from construction, remodeling, repair, or demolition of structures, buildings and roads. This includes waste materials such as concrete, brick, soil, wood, wallboard, tile, carpeting, roofing shingles, and asphalt pavement. A CDDHRF might store these wastes, process them to extract recyclable or reusable materials, store recovered materials, or carry on any combination or all of these activities.
Waste materials that are not considered C&D debris (even if generated from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition activities) include municipal solid waste, friable asbestos-containing waste, garbage, corrugated container board, electrical fixtures containing hazardous liquids such as fluorescent light ballasts or transformers, fluorescent lights, furniture, appliances, tires, drums, fuel tanks, containers greater than 10 gallons in size and any containers having more than one inch of residue remaining on the bottom. A CDDHRF is prohibited from receiving these wastes, or if they are received, they must be removed as soon as possible for disposal.
To locate CDDHRFs near you, refer to the Interactive Map of CDDHRFs on DECInfo Locator.
Type of CDDHRFs
All CDDHRFs, if not exempt (see below), must have either a valid registration or a permit to operate legally in New York State. If you are considering opening a CDDHRF, you will have to determine whether to submit a registration or a permit application. Based on the descriptions that follow, you can determine which application you must complete and which regulatory requirements your facility must follow.
Exemptions
CDDHRFs may be exempt if they are located:
- On the site of construction or demolition or another site under same ownership or control of the entity generating C&D debris (See 6 NYCRR 360.14(b)(1)).
- At the storage yard of a construction contractor or other person designated as “responsible for the generation” by the site owner, up to certain volume limits and for limited types of C&D debris such as recognizable and uncontaminated concrete, concrete products (including embedded reinforcement), brick, rock, asphalt pavement or asphalt millings plus certain types of excavated material destined for beneficial use. Details, including allowable storage volumes, vary by location in the state; see 6 NYCRR 361-5.2 for more information.
- At sites for temporary staging of C&D debris that are authorized by the City of New York. See 6 NYCRR 361-5.2 for more information.
Registration
Registered CDDHRFs may accept any one of the of the following types or groups of source-separated,uncontaminated waste materials:
- Concrete and other masonry materials (including steel or fiberglass reinforcing embedded in concrete), brick, rock. asphalt pavement or millings.
- Asphalt roofing shingles and roofing paper (must contain no friable asbestos).
- Uncontaminated, unadulterated gypsum wallboard.
- Unadulterated wood (cannot include painted, treated, or coated wood, or glued wood such as plywood or fiberboard products).
- Soil, sand, gravel, or rock directly from a site of excavation. (The soil must have no evidence of chemical or physical contamination such as impacts from spill events, or visual or other indication (odors, etc.) of chemical or physical contamination.) Soils from any of the five boroughs of New York City can only be received at this type of facility if it is owned or controlled by the City.
Source-separated recyclables generated from C&D debris, for use under an approved case-specific Beneficial Use Determination (BUD).
