PLAIN-TEXT TRANSCRIPT Document: SMART Environmental Justice Public Participation Report Issuer: SMART Technology Systems, LLC Original source: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/deep/environmental_justice/ej-plans-and-reports/smart-technology-systems-llc-norwich-road-black-hill-road-plainfield-ej-public-participation-plan.pdf Extraction method: layout-aware native PDF text extraction; 4 image-only or blank pages remain available in the PDF The PDF controls if layout, tables, symbols, columns, or page order differ from this text version. [Page 1] Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 p 860 424 4315 f 860 424 4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com June 6, 2025 VIA ELECTRONIC FILING Edith Pestana Program Administrator Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection 79 Elm Street Hartford, CT 06106 Re: SMART Technology Systems, LLC Environmental Justice Public Participation Report Dear Ms. Pestana: I am writing on behalf of my client, SMART Technology Systems, LLC (“SMART”). With this letter, I am including a copy of the Environmental Justice Public Participation Report related to SMART’s proposed Plainfield waste processing and conversion facility. Should you have any questions concerning this submittal, please contact me at your convenience. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman Enclosure ACTIVE/84477.1/KEBOUCHER/20413622v1 [Page 2] SMART Technology Systems Public Participation Report June 6, 2025 [Page 3] I. Summary SMART Technology Systems, LLC (“SMART”) proposes a 45 MW waste processing and conversion facility to be located in Plainfield, CT. Because Plainfield is defined as an “environmental justice community” under Connecticut General Statutes § 22a-20a(a)(1), Connecticut’s environmental justice laws are applicable to the development of this facility. Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes § 22a-20a(b), and in accordance with its March 14, 2025 Environmental Justice Participation Plan, SMART hereby submits this Public Participation Report (“Report”) summarizing environmental justice-related activities conducted to date. This Report contains a summary of pre-meeting requirements, questions raised during the May 7, 2025 Public Meeting (“May 7 Meeting”) at the Plainfield Town Hall, as well as additional activities that have taken place since the May 7 Meeting. As further demonstrated in this public participation report, SMART continues to refine its public outreach strategy in accordance with guidance from the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“DEEP” or the “Department”) in support of state objectives of development of renewable energy, waste management, and incorporating local input on needed facilities to accomplish those objectives where possible. SMART also continues to work to address, prevent, minimize and mitigate potential offsite impacts of the facility proactively. Discussions with the Town of Plainfield to evaluate the need for a community environmental benefit agreement remain ongoing and are anticipated to continue for some time. II. Pre-Meeting Requirements SMART executed the Environmental Justice Participation Plan as preliminarily approved by DEEP on March 28, 2025. On April 4, 2025, letters were sent to all properties within one half mile of the proposed site. A full listing of those individuals who were sent these letters is included in Attachment 1 to this report. Of this initial batch, 28 letters were returned as undeliverable. A SMART representative drove to Plainfield on April 17, 2025 to hand deliver those letters, and each was left in an obvious visible place (i.e., tucked into a front door) or personally delivered. Letters to state and town officials and commissions were sent via certified mail on April 15, 2025. The list of these individuals is contained in the Environmental Justice Public Participation Plan Addendum at Page 3, and is also replicated in Attachment 1. Emails to environmental advocates were sent on April 15, 2025. However, representatives of SMART received a bounceback from jvelazquez@acadiacenter.org. A subsequent email was sent to Joy Yakie, Acadia Center’s Environmental Justice and Outreach Manager on April 16, 2025 at jyakie@acadiacenter.org . SMART did not post about the May 7 meeting on the community page on Facebook. However, when SMART went on that page, it found that an informational post about the May 7 Meeting was published on the Plainfield CT Residents Facebook Page on April 22, 2025. A screenshot of that post appears below. 2 [Page 4] A sign was posted on the property on April 4, 2025, and the sign was visible from Norwich Road. 3 [Page 5] Notice was published in the Norwich Bulletin and ran on April 14 and 21 in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes § 22a-20a(b)(4). Public notification materials can be found in Attachment 1, including example letters and emails. All as-sent copies can be provided if requested by the Department. An affidavit confirming compliance with these requirements is submitted as Attachment 2. III. Meeting Attendance The Participation Plan notices were effective, and attendance was high at the May 7 Meeting, with several hundred attendees present in the Plainfield Town Hall. The meeting began at 7:00pm and concluded at approximately 11:00pm. The meeting began with a short technical and informational presentation from SMART, followed by a question and answer session. The videos played are also available on SMART’s website at https://smartmswprocessing.com/. Approximately fifty residents commented and asked questions regarding the proposed facility. Many of the residents who attended the meeting voiced their opposition to siting the proposed facility in the Town of Plainfield. SMART made a reasonable and good faith effort to provide clear, accurate and complete information about the proposed affecting facility and the potential environmental and health impacts of such affecting facility or such expansion. SMART addressed many misconceptions about the technology, but attendees were generally frustrated and angry about the project. A full video recording of the meeting is available on the SMART website: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. IV. Questions Received Representatives of SMART were asked questions during the May 7 Meeting. Responses to those questions and other questions submitted through the SMART website are attached hereto in Attachment 3. Additional questions that have been submitted to SMART since the May 7 Meeting. The majority of these questions have been submitted by the Zero Waste Coalition. Responses to these questions are in Attachment 4. Discussions with the Zero Waste Coalition remain ongoing. As SMART continues to evaluate the feedback it receives concerning the proposed facility, SMART is evaluating what changes to the proposed project will be made as a result of the feedback SMART has received. V. Next Steps and Continued Outreach The Zero Waste Coalition has requested that representatives of Smart engage their members in an additional public forum to answer questions. SMART believes that a DEEP-facilitated meeting could have some value, but SMART seeks the Department’s guidance as to how to facilitate such a meeting. 4 [Page 6] Representatives of SMART have reached out to Plainfield First Selectman Kevin Cunningham to discuss and evaluate the feasibility of a community environmental benefit agreement. Potential topics of discussion include educational-related funding for Plainfield Schools, providing a power purchase agreement for Town of Plainfield facilities, and opportunities for noise and traffic mitigation. In addition, SMART has posted materials relating to its permitting activities and the public outreach associated with this project to its website. This information, including but not limited to, the permit application, the public participation plan, the Traffic Study and the supplement to the Traffic Study are all posted at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. In addition to those materials, a full, unedited video of the May 7 Meeting can be found on that page. Finally, it should be noted that there is a button on every page of the SMART website which will allow members of the public to submit comments directly to SMART. 5 ACTIVE/84477.1/KEBOUCHER/20403702v2 [Page 7] [No extractable text detected on this page. See the archived PDF image.] [Page 8] PULLMAN LEE D. HOFFMAN 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860) 424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 4, 2025 Via United States Mail To the Residents Located Near The Intersection of Norwich Road and Black Hill Road Plainfield, CT Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement By Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Resident: Please be advised that this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“the Applicant”), a developer of recycling and renewable energy facilities. The applicant is proposing to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) management, recycling and power generation complex. The Applicant is aware that the proposed facility will constitute a major new project in Plainfield, CT and is working very hard to address, prevent, minimize and mitigate potential offsite impacts proactively. The proposed project will be constructed on an 81.2-acre parcel located near the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14) in Plainfield. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. We are writing this letter to provide notice that the Applicant is in the process of submitting applications to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to construct, install, enlarge, or establish a facility that will be designed to recycle MSW into refuse derived fuel (RDF) to produce electricity as well as recycled commodities, handling approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and producing approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. The project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation. In order to provide the community with additional information about this facility, the Applicant will be hosting a public information meeting, open to the general public, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 9] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental i-mpaets and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Public comments may also be submitted by going to the project’s website (ww vv.smartmsvvprocessing.com) and clicking on the Public Comments button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. If you prefer, comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com). We look forward to receiving your comments and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477.1/KSHEATHELM/20269965vl [Page 10] MV -'■"' ......1’1JCOKNECTKUT ’corn.eM- h ■ U:fn : o Sltfsr* MiU CM RrinfcfM G»r* Plninfi dd Village 23 'LtnlFn Ncdh Whdyjr. CTQWS6 Rtitnit. ta*.2M938Q Apprti»im«te .Seas FT SMART TECHHOLOm SYSTEMS, LLC PLAINFIELD, CaNNECTJCVF AtwradmiCe Sole MLE J-240(® USGS Map DASC CHEATED WH 7.5 USG5 TOPOGRAPHIC MAP PLAINFIELD, CT 2023 DATE. 0&2D24 PROJECT NO. 555B78.C«ffi3.i:' ';-•••■ 1. Resident/Occupant 30 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 34 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 3. Resident/Occupant 39 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 4. Resident/Occupant 42 Jackson Road Plainfield, Ci 063/4 + Resident/Occupant 48 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 51 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page _ of ) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 28] UNITED STATES Certificate of Mailing — Firm POSTAL SERVICE® Name and Address of Sender TOTAL NO. TOTAL NO. Affix Stamp Here of Pieces Listed by Sender of Pieces Received at Post Office™ Postmark with Date of Receipt. PULLMAN & COMLEY, LLC US POSTAGE BOWES Attorneys At Law 90 State House Square Postmaster, per (name of receiyrfig Employee) Hartford, CT 06103 ZIP 06103 $ 013 20° 02 7YV * 0008033415 APR. 04. 2025 USPS® Tracking Number Address Postage Parcel Airlift Firm-specific Identifier (Name, Street, City, State, and ZIP Code™) 1. Resident/Occupant 52 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 2. Reside nt/Occu pa nt 53 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 3. Resident/Occupant 57 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 59 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 60 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 6. Resident/Occupant 62 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page of ) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 29] UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE® Certificate of Mailing — Firm Name and Address of Sender TOTAL NO. TOTAL NO. Affix Stamp Here of Pieces Listed by Sender of Pieces Received at Post Office™ Postmark with Date of Receipt. PULLMAN & COMLEY, LLC US POSTAGEPfTNEY BOWES Attorneys At Law ■ CORRECT I ON 90 State House Square Postmaster, per (name of receivj employee) K103 $013.20° Hartford, CT 06103 . 0008033415 APR. 04 2025 USPS® Tracking Number Address Firm-specific Identifier (Name, Street, City, State, and ZiP Code™) Postage Fee Parcel Airlift 1. Resident/Occupant 70 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 81 Jackson Road___ Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 101 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 105 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 ■ Resident/Occupant 108 Jackson Road | Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 111 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page of _) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 30] UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE® Certificate of Mailing — Firm Name and Address of Sender TOTAL NO. TOTAL NO. Affix Stamp Here of Pieces Listed by Sender of Pieces Received at Post Office™ Postmark with Date of Receipt. PULLMAN & COMLEY, LLC us. POSTAGE'”"3'™^ Attorneys At Law 90 State House Square 06103 $013.20° Hartford, CT 06103 9'0.08033415 APR. 04 2025 USPS® Tracking Number Address Postage Parcel Airlift Firm-specific Identifier (Name, Street, City, State, and ZIP Code™) 1. Resident/Occupant 115 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 2. Resident/Occupant 119 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 3. -Resident/Occupant 124 Jackson Road Plainfield, CT 06374 4. Resident/Occupant 15 Pickett Road Plainfield, CT 06374 5. Resident/Occupant 21 Pickett Road Aiainf ieid, CTT6374 ~ Resident/Occupant 23 Pickett Road Plainfield, CT 06374 PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page of ) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 31] UNITED STATES Certificate of Mailing — Firm POSTAL SERVICE® Name and Address of Sender TOTAL NO. TOTAL NO. of Pieces Listed by Sender of Pieces Received at Post Office™ Affix Stamp HerePostmark with Date of Receipt. PULLMAN & COMLEY, LLC US POSTAGE'm,pitne y bowes Attorneys At Law 90 State House Square Postmaster, per (name of receiving e loyee) ■"""“^CORRECT i ON Hartford, CT 06103 zipo6i°3 $013.20° 0008033415 APR 04 2025 DSPS® Tracking Number Address Firm-specific Identifier (Name, Street, City, State, and ZIP Code™) Postage Parcel Airlift 1. Resident/Occupant 25 Pickett Road Plainfield, CT 06374 2. 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PULLMAN & COMLEY, LLC 6 Attorneys At Law US POSTAGE '“PITNEY BOWES 90 State House Square ■——'CORRECTION Hartford, CT 06103 Postmaster, per (name of receiving employee) ■ra 02p™°3 $013.20° Sfai 0008033415 APR. 04 2025 USPS® Tracking Number Address Postage Fee Parcel Airlift Firm-specific Identifier (Name, Street, City, State, and ZIP Code™) Resident/Occupant 49 Pickett Road ' P i aTnfiera; CT~06374 ~ Resident/Occupant 53 Pickett Road TTainfiera7CT 0'6374 Resident/Occupant 61 Pickett Road Pta'infiefd, CT 06374’ Resident/Occupant 67 Pickett Road Plainfield, ci Ub3/4 Resident/Occupant 95 Pickett Road Plainfield, CT 06374 Resident/Occupant 105 Pickett Road Plainfield, CT 06374 PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page of _ ) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 33] KZiiiK POSTAL SERVICE® Certificate of Mailing — FirmUNITED STATES Name and Address of Sender TOTAL NO. TOTAL NO. 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PS Form 3665, December 2024 (Page of ) PSN 7530-17-000-5549 See Reverse for Instructions [Page 38] SMART TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS PLAINFIELD Town Officials who received Notice of May 7 Public Meeting SERVICE OF NOTICE LETTER TO TOWN OFFICIALS VIA CERTIFIED MAIL MAILED RETURN NOTES TOWN OFFICIAL From RECEIPT AND/OR LOCAL GOVERNMENT P & C via BACK Certified [Green Mail Card] Kevin Cunningham First Selectman 04/15/25 04/22/25 Plainfield Town Hall 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Ryan Brais, Town Planner Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 04/24/25 Planning & Zoning Commission 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Arthur W. Gagne Board of Selectman Member 04/15/25 04/22/25 Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Peggy Ann Bourey Board of Selectman Member 04/15/25 04/22/25 Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Robert Wagner, Building Official Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 04/23/25 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Richard J. Martel, Building Official Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 04/22/25 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 [Page 39] Katie O’Neill, Zoning Officer Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 04/22/25 Planning & Zoning Commission 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Conservation Commission Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission 04/15/25 04/22/25 Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Planning and Zoning Commission Town of Plainfield 04/15/25 04/22/25 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 The Northeast District Department of Health 04/15/25 04/23/25 69 South Main Street, Unit 4 Brooklyn, CT 06234 Representative Anne Dauphinais Legislative Office Building, Room 4200 04/15/25 04/24/25 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 Senator Heather Somers Legislative Office Building, Room 3400 04/15/25 04/23/25 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 2 ACTIVE/84477.1/KSHEATHELM/20325932v1 [Page 40] PULLMAN Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860)424-4315 f (860)424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15, 2025 Via Certified Mail Mr. Kevin Cunningham First Selectman Plainfield Town Hall 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Mr. Cunningham, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 41] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477. l/LFEINN/20282629vl [Page 42] r-Al-A U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only mtro For delivery information, visit our website at www.usps.com1' LT)ruzrruCertified Mail Fee $_____________ Extra Services & Fees (qheckbax, add fee as appropriate) Return Receipt (hardcopy} $ Return Receipt (electronic) $ ostmark o Certified Mall Restricted Delivery $ Here Adult Signature Required $ ruLT) Adult Signature Restricted Delivery $ Postage $ ______ Xz.. r-=l Total Postage and Fees . , _Mr. Kevin Cunningham r^-o s^Tb-------------First selectman--------- tr .........................pJainfield.Tow.n.Han .... coLT| trStreet and Apt. No., or POBox No,8 Community Avenue c76f"stats?2/P+4*'pia'infieTcl7Cr"(T6374' PS Form 3800, January 2023 hs n 7530 02 000-9047 See Reverse for Instructions SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1,2, and 3. A. SignatureJOWN OF PLAINFIELD ■ Print your name and address on the reverse v SELECTMEN'S OFFICE Agent so that we can return the card to you. A 8 COMMUNITY AVENUE □ Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. ReceivedfBUAfNWEtiDTCT 063}4- Date of .Delivery or on the front if space permits. I I///7/^ 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? 'O Yfes Mr. Kevin Cunningham If YES, enter delivery address below: No First Selectman Plainfield Town Hall 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 3. 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Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 & C O M L E ¥ p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Ryan Brais, Town Planner Town of Plainfield Planning & Zoning Commission 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Mr. Brais, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 44] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477. l/LHOFFMAN/20301155 v I [Page 45] U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only ru For delivery information, visit our website at www.usps.com1’ LT) ruCertified Mail Fee - $ Extra Services & Fe'0S (check bqx> add fee as appropriate) nt ru Return Receipt (hardcopy) '■ \ T I \ _ Return Receipt Electronic) $____ EZJ Certified Mail Restricted Delivery $ .r.-. Postmark O Adult Signature Required \ $ Here ru Adult Signature Restricted Delivery $ Postage ' ~ $ Total Postage and Fees ~~ ’ $_________ Ryan Brais, Town Planner Sent To Town of Plainfield ci^; state,’^P^ainfigi^ q - 06374.............8 Community Avenue J^Z2ELgg°°’ .J;lnuary 2023 PS.N7530-.02-00C-9047 See Reverse tor Instructions SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1, 2, and 3. , a*. . A 3 A. ■ Print your name and address on the’r^yersa Agent so that we can return the card to you. \ V ■ X Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece; i B. ed Name) e of Delivery or on the front if space permits. ________ _ 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? U Yes Brais, Town Planner If YES, enter delivery address below: No li-sn of Plainfield Pfenning & Zoning Commission "'nmunity Avenue % Jfield, CT 06374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature ■ Registered Mail™ lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 8* Certified Mail® Adylt Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted Delivery 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 24 Certified Mhil Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number (Transfer from service label) Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery ** ** ’’■’ail k. 5565 D710 5E70 E4E5 4D5E b7 ail Restricted Delivery J PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt • [Page 46] F 0 L L M A iH Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 BCOMLEV p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Arthur W. Gagne Board of Selectman Member Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Mr. Gagne, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pulicom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 47] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477.1/LHOFFMAN/20301113v 1 [Page 48] U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only For delivery information, visit our website at www.usps.com1^. LT) ruCertified Mail Fee fi J $ f ° Extra Services & Fees (checkbox, add fee as appropriate) ru Return Receipt (hardcopy) $ C] Return Receipt (electronic), $ Postmark Certified Mail Restricted Delivery $ Here Adult Signature Required , < $ ru Adult Signature Restrlct^diCeJIyery Postage $_________________________ Total Postage and Fees $Arthur W. Gagne SentTo Board of Selectman Member CO Street ........................ ................ s c.Q.mmu.ojiY.AYfinu.e........... C)tK, State,Z/P^|a.nf.e|d cT 06374 PS Forg) 380Q, January 2023 PSN 7530 02-000;9Q47 See Reverse for Instructions SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1, 2, and 3. A. SignatuWWN OF PLAINFIELD ■ Print your name and address on the reverse SELECTMEN'S OFFICE Agent so that we can return the card to you. X 8 COMMUNITY AVENUE □ Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. ReceiveBItAINfrlEUlBt^O?)06374c. Da|e oWelivgry or on the front if space permits. 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? O Yes Arthur W. Gagne If YES, enter delivery address below: No Board ofSelectman Member Town of "Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 4)6374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Adult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted Certified Mail® Delivery 9590 9402 9185 4225 7004 70 L3 Certified Mail Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number (Transfer from service label) Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery U lail Restricted Deliverytail ISSI D71D 5270 2425 4013 _________________________________________ ; PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt . [Page 49] P 0 L L A H Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Peggy Ann Bourey Board of Selectman Member Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Ms. Bourey, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 paUc6m.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford White PlainsWaterbury Westport [Page 50] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477. l/LHOFFMAN/20301130v 1 [Page 51] | SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1,2, and 3. A. SignatureTOWN OF PLAINFIELD ■ Print your name and address on the reverse v SELECTMEN'S OFFICE Agent so that we can return the card to you. A 8 COMMUNITY AVENUE □ Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. Receivecf?MfiNF^t®pOT 063' ’4:- of DeliveryV// 7/^ or on the front if space permits. 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1?' Yes Peggy Ann Bourey If YES, enter delivery address below: No Board of Selectman Member Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Adult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted 9590 9402 9185 4225 7004 94 ® Certified Mail® Delivery Certified Mail Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number /Transfer from service label} Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery Mai! TSflH D71D 5E7D E4E5 4052 1 fl Mail Restricted Delivery —^™-^00) PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt < [Page 52] P 0 L L M A H Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860) 424-4315 f (860)424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15, 2025 Via Certified Mail Robert Wagner, Building Official Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Mr. Wagner, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 puUcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 53] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477. l/LHOFFMAN/20301140v 1 [Page 54] U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only ru For delivery information, visit our website at www.usps.com’. LT) ruCertified Mail Fee $ Extra Services & Fees,:(chetk box, add fee as appropriate) ru Q Return Receipt (hardcopy) $ O Return Receipt (electronic) . i $ Postmark Certified Mail Restricted Delivery $ Here Q Adult Signature Required $ ru Adult Signature Restricted Delivery $ Postage $___________________ Total Postage and Fees $_____ Rohert.Wagfler-rBo-ildingOffie4al Sent To Town of Plainfield |=O .................... tn C/^State;z/AW®’PI'ainffetd;’eT--063-74:....................... PS Form 3800, January 2023 psn 7530 02 000 9Q47 See Reverse for Instructions SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1,2, and 3. A. Sigi ■ Print your name and address on the reverse Agent so that we can return the card to you. Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. .Received ^yW/nted Name) C. Date of Delivery, or on the front if space permits.____________ ■_ hi y p UM 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? Yes Robert Wagner, Building Official If YES, enter delivery address below: No Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ iiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Adult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted Delivery Certified Mail® Signature Confirmation™ 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 00 Certified Mail Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery 2 Article Number (Transfer from service label) Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery ‘/lail 5565 5270 2425 4052 fil 4ail Restricted Delivery0) PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt [Page 55] iPOLLMAH Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 A C O M L E ¥ p (860) 424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.coni www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Richard J. Martel, Building Official Town of Plainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Mr. Martel, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pMUcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 56] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website Cwww.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477.1 /LHOFFMAN/20301147v 1 [Page 57] SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1,2, and 3. 9 fbWN OF PLAINFIELD ■ Print your name and address on the reverse X SELECTMEN'S OFFICE Agent so that we can return the card to you. Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. Receive ’EMttf- C. Date of Delivery or on the front if space permits._____________ 56374 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? Richardl. Martel, Building Official If YES, enter delivery address below: No Town of P'larnfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT^6374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ IIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Adult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted Deilvery Certified Mail® Signature Confirmation™ 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 17 Certified Mail Restricted Delivery __ Collect on Delivery O Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number (Transfer from service label} Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery id Mail 0710 5E7D E425 4052 ? 4 ’d Mail Restricted Delivery , ^-^500) PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 DomestiG;0HWn Receipt < [Page 58] PULLMAN Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860) 424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Katie O’Neill, Zoning Officer Town of Plainfield Planning & Zoning Commission 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 06374 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Ms. O’Neill, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 59] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477.1 /LHOFFM AN/20301261 v 1 [Page 60] U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only ru ^delivery information, visiTom website at Certified Mall Fee / '------------------------- ru $ /$z ru Hi Return Receipt (electronic) $ ~ Q Certified Mail Restricted Delivery $ Postmark Adult Signature Required - $ ~ Here ru Adult Signature Restricted Dellverv $ Postage _________________;; do^ Total Postage and Fees---------------------— ------- $ Katie O'Neill, Zoning Office ®ent To Town oTPIaintield street anV^p7/^^g^^gn^gPlainfield 8 Community Avenue Plainfield, CT 05374 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll Adult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted S Certified Mail® Delivery 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 48 Certified Mail Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number (Transfer from service Johan Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery - Mail 5565 071D SETO E4ES MOTE OS) Mail Restricted Delivery —yjveniroOO) PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 IDomestic Return Receipt < [Page 70] P U L L A A Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 & C O M L E ¥ p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail The Northeast District Department of Health 69 South Main Street, Unit 4 Brooklyn, CT 06234 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Sir/Madam, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 71] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. Sincerely Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477. l/LHOFFMAN/20301206v 1 [Page 72] tr tr U.S. Postal Service™ CERTIFIED MAIL® RECEIPT Domestic Mail Only rA cr o n-For delivery information, visit our website at www.usps.com’■ LH ru rr ruCertified Mail Fee /. -• $ _ /.y'''''______________-X Extra Services & Fees (checkbox, add fee as appropriate) Return Receipt (hardcopy) $_________________ Return Receipt (electronic) $ ___________ Certified Mail Restricted Delivery j $ :■ Adult Signature Required $________________ ru tn Adult Signature Restricted Delivery $ ______________ Postage o $ _____ X_______ Total Postage and Fees o $_____________________________________________________ sent To The Northeast District Department of Health o- ............................. COU1 tr Brooklyn, CT 06234 City,'State, ZiP^ PS Form 3800, January 2023 PSN 7ba0-02-000.-9047 See Reverse tor Instructions SENDER: COMPLETE THIS SECTION COMPLETE THIS SECTION ON DELIVERY ■ Complete items 1, 2, and 3. A. Sign ■ Print your name and address on the reverse X Agent so that we can return the card to you. Addressee ■ Attach this card to the back of the mailpiece, B. Her y (Printed Name) C. Date of Delivery or on the front if space permits. _^/h /^~ 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery'address different from item 1? Yes The Northeast District Department of Health If YES, enter delivery address below: No 69 South Main Street, Unit 4 Brooklyn, CT 06234 3. ervice Type - Priority Mail Express® llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll CLAduUfSigiratyre Adylt Signature —□Registered Mail™ M Certified Mail®r Registered Mail Restricted Delivery 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 31 □ Certified M^TReslricfed Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2 Article Niimher fTrantifar from <:pn/ir.^ label} Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery 4ail TSflT 0710 5E70 E4E5 4011 11 4ail Restricted Delivery >0) PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt • [Page 73] PULLMAN Lee D. Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 B.C© MILEY p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15,2025 Via Certified Mail Representative Anne Dauphinais Legislative Office Building, Room 4200 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Representative Dauphinais, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 74] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing,com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. 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Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 &COMLEY p (860)424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15, 2025 Via Certified Mail Senator Heather Somers Legislative Office Building, Room 3400 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Senator Somers, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 pullcom.com Bridgeport Hartford Springfield Stamford Waterbury Westport White Plains [Page 77] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand comer of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. 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Date of Delivery or on the front if space permits. * 1. Article Addressed to: D. Is delivery address different from item 1? Yes Senator Heather Somers If YES, enter delivery address below: No legislative Office Building, Room 3400 300 Capitol Avenue Hartford, CT 06106 3. Service Type Priority Mail Express® Adult Signature Registered Mail™ iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinniii ELAdult Signature Restricted Delivery Registered Mail Restricted Certified Mail® Delivery 9590 9402 9185 4225 7005 62 Certified Mail Restricted Delivery Signature Confirmation™ Collect on Delivery Signature Confirmation 2. Article Number (Transfer from service label) Collect on Delivery Restricted Delivery Restricted Delivery Mail 0710 5E70 E4E5 M05E 3h >00)Mail Restricted Delivery PS Form 3811, July 2020 PSN 7530-02-000-9053 Domestic Return Receipt > [Page 79] SMART TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS PLAINFIELD Environmental Advocates who received Notice of May 7 Public Meeting SERVICE OF NOTICE LETTER TO ENVIRONMENTAL ADVOCATES VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL ENVIRONMENTAL Electronic Mail Address Date E- NOTES ADVOCATES mail sent Madison Spremulli CT Zero Waste madisonspremulli@gmail.com 04/15/25 Coalition Sharon Lewis Executive Director environmentaljusticect@gmail.com 04/15/25 CCEEJ Ian McDonald mcdonaldstonemasonry@gmail.com 04/15/25 Diane Lauricella dlauricella24@yahoo.com 04/15/25 Kevin Budris Just Zero kbudris@just-zero.org 04/15/25 Marc Gonzalez Conservation Law mgonzalez@clf.org 04/15/25 Foundation Anne Hulick ahulick@cleanwater.org 04/15/25 Lori Brown lori.brown@ctlcv.org 04/15/25 Mike Ewall mike@energyjustice.net 04/15/25 Mark Mitchell mmitch3@gmu.edu 04/15/25 [Page 80] J. Velazquez E-mail Acadia Center jvelazquez@acadiacenter.org 04/15/25 delivery failed ------------------------------- ---------------------- ------------- -------------- ----------------- Joy Yakie jyakie@acadiacenter.org 04/16/25 Acadia Center Terri Eickel Interreligious Eco teresa.eickel@gmail.com 04/15/25 Justice Network Chris Schweitzer New Haven EJ Network cschweitzer@newhavenleon.org 04/15/25 Lynne Bonnett lybonnett@gmail.com 04/15/25 Laura Cahn laurasline@sbcglobal.net 04/15/25 Aaron Goode aaron.goode@gmail.com 04/15/25 Anstress Farwell anstress@urbandesignleague.org Urban Design League 04/15/25 Lee Cruz eliezerleecruz@gmail.com 04/15/25 Steven Winter SWinter@newhavenct.gov 04/15/25 Alex Rodriguez alexrodriguez@savethesound.org Save the Sound 04/15/25 2 ACTIVE/84477.1/LHOFFMAN/20328018v1 [Page 81] Carlson, Julia From: Carlson, Julia Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2025 10:30 AM To: madisonspremulli@gmail.com Cc: Hoffman, Lee D.; Boucher, Kathryn E. Subject: Notice of Public Meeting – Plainfield – May 7 Attachments: Smart Technology Systems, LLC - Notice Letter to Madison Spremulli of May 7, 2025 Public Information Meeting.pdf Greetings As you may have heard, Smart Technology Systems is proposing a municipal solid waste processing facility to be located in Plainfield, Connecticut. Smart has planned for a public information meeting to be held at Plainfield Town Hall next month, and the details of the event are in the attached PDF. We would appreciate it if you would inform members of your organization or other contacts you might have regarding this meeting. We would like to get as many view points as possible from the meeting. Thank you in advance for your consideration. Julia L. 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Hoffman 90 State House Square Hartford, CT 06103-3702 p (860) 424-4315 f (860) 424-4370 lhoffman@pullcom.com www.pullcom.com April 15, 2025 Via Electronic Mail madisonspremulli@gmail.com Madison Spremulli CT Zero Waste Coalition Re: Public Informational Meeting Announcement by Smart Technology Systems, LLC Dear Ms. Spremulli, As you may be aware, this office represents Smart Technology Systems, LLC (“Smart”), which intends to construct and operate a first-in-the-country, next-generation Municipal Solid Waste (“MSW”) management, recycling and power generation complex in your town to be located at the intersection of Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. More information on the location of the site is provided on the enclosed USGS map. This project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation, which will process approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and produce approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. Smart understands that this is a major project and, as such, intends to collaborate with the public and the Town of Plainfield to proactively address, prevent, minimize and mitigate any possible unfavorable impacts to adjacent communities. This letter serves to notify you that Smart will hold a public information meeting, open to the general public, which it hopes you can attend, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025 [Page 83] Page 2 The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers from the public Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manager@smartmswprocessing.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessing.com. Smart is also accepting public comments through the project’s website (www.smartmswprocessing.com) under the “Public Comments” button in the lower right-hand corner of the page. Comments may also be submitted by US mail (Smart Technology Systems; 112 Wall Street; Torrington, Connecticut, 06790) or electronic mail (manager@smartmswprocessing.com ). We look forward to seeing you at the meeting and answering any questions you may have about this facility. Please also feel free to reach out to me or my colleague Kate Boucher (keboucher@pullcom.com or 860-424-4372) directly with any questions. Sincerely, Lee D. Hoffman ACTIVE/84477.1/CARLSJ/20294484v1 [Page 84] LOCA LiQ PO Bo x 631210 Cincinnati, OH 45263-1 210 NEW ENGLAN D AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION Adam Cohen Pullman & Comley 850 Main ST Bridgeport CT 06604-4917 STATE OF CONNECTICUT, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON The Bu lletin , a newsp aper prin ted and publishe d in the city of Norw ich, and of genera l circu latio n in th e County of New London, Sta te of Connectic ut, and pers onal knowledge of the facts here in st at e and that the notice here to annexed was Pub lish ed in said newsp apers in the issu e: 04/14/2025,0 4/21/2025 and th at the fees charg ed are legal. Sw orn to and subsc rib ed before on 04/21/2025 - c...::51.._ _ .s My commission expires Pub lic atio n Cost: $444.24 Tax Am ount: $0.00 Pay ment Cost: $444.24 Ord er No: 11 211720 # of Copies: Cust omer No: 666629 1 PO #: THIS IS NOT AN INVOICE ! Please do not use thisformfor payment remittance. NANCY HEYRMAN Notary Public State of Wisconsin Page 1 of 2 [Page 85] Public Informational Meeting Announcement By Smart Technology Systems, LLC OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC Notice is hereby given that Smart Technology Systems, L I r: (the ~p_pJicant:) Qf~12~1 L .Street. .Iortinqton, Connecticut, has submitted applications to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to construct, install, and establish a facility that will be designed to recycle municipal solid waste (MSW) into refuse derived fuel (RDF) to produce electricity as well as recycled commodities, handling approximately 1,800 tons per day of MSW and producing approximately 45 megawatts of electric power. The project will be comprised of a bulk waste handling facility for material separation, a gasification system, anaerobic digester, boiler system and steam turbine generator for electric generation. The proposed activity will take place at Norwich Rd (RT-12) & Black Hill Rd (RT-14), Plainfield, Connecticut. The applicant will be hosting a public information meeting, open to the general public, as follows: LOCATION: Plainfield Town Hall, 8 Community Avenue, Plainfield, CT TIME AND DATE: 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. The agenda for the meeting will be as follows: 1. Introduction of the applicant team 2. General overview of the project 3. Layout and description of the facility 4. Environmental impacts and benefits associated with the facility 5. Questions and answers Interested persons may obtain copies of the permit applications for the facility from William J. Corvo, Manager, Smart Technology Systems, LLC, 112 Wall Street, Torrington, Connecticut, 06790, manaqer@smartmswprocessinq.com or by going to www.smartmswprocessinq.com. In addition to submitting public comments at the Public Information Meeting, public comments may also be submitted by US mail or electronic mail at the addresses above. NO"• '"" [Page 86] NORWICHBULLETIN.COM | MONDAY, APRIL 14, 2025 | 3A Tourists speak out about ICE detentions ‘You’re treated like worst in early April, according to agency data. Last year, Congress provided funding Because immigration and visa criminal,’ Australian says for a daily average maximum of 41,500 violations are civil, not criminal immigration detention beds. matters, ICE detention is supposed to Trevor Hughes and Lauren Villagran Fleischaker said problems like over- be “non-punitive,” according to the USA TODAY crowding used to be detected and fixed agency’s own guidelines. by internal review systems. But the A British backpacker. A Harvard re- Trump administration recently elimi- searcher. A Canadian actress. An Aus- nated two key oversight offices, the Of- from Paris to Boston Logan Interna- tralian mixed martial arts coach. Doz- fice of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, tional Airport in February, with speci- ens of international college students. Harvard Medical School researcher and the Office of the Immigration De- mens for her lab’s genetics research that The Trump administration’s sweep- Kseniia Petrova, right, has remained in tention Ombudsman. customs officers said she failed to prop- ing immigration and visa crackdown ICE detention for more than seven erly declare. She arrived with her J1 has begun ensnaring a class of people weeks. PROVIDED BY LEON PESHKIN Detention or ‘kidnapping’? work-study visa; she was in good stand- long accustomed to being welcomed ing and had never entered the country with open arms into the United States. Canadian entrepreneur-turned-ac- unlawfully. And those uncommon detainees are crackdown has swept up everyday for- tress Jasmine Mooney described an ex- Typically, when a traveler fails to bringing new attention to the often eign travelers and tourists, too, resulting perience similar to Subotic’s, but far properly declare an import, customs of- harsh U.S. Immigration and Customs in detention for infractions that previ- longer. She described her 12-day ICE de- ficers confiscate the product. Some- Enforcement detention system, where ously would have gotten a severe glare tention in The Guardian newspaper as a times they issue a fine. In Petrova’s case, people can be held without charge in- or a $500 fine. “kidnapping” after she tried to enter the they withheld her visa. ICE sent her to a definitely, sometimes in shocking con- “I believe in respecting the rules. But United States at the Mexican border, as privately run Louisiana detention cen- ditions, or abruptly removed from the putting someone in federal prison over a she’d done many times before. ter and has refused to release her or al- country. missing detail in a visa application?” Legally, immigration officers couldn’t low her to return to Europe. This type of treatment has long been Subotic wrote in his post. “Now I’m back send her back to Mexico, because she’s Petrova said she told CBP officers she the case in ICE detention, but the people in Australia, I’ll speak with my lawyers. a Canadian citizen. But in years past, feared returning to Russia because of held by the government often didn’t Something has to be done about the way agents might have put her on a one-way her pro-Ukrainian political activism. have the resources – the access, lan- I was treated. Hope this never happen to flight to Vancouver, experts told USA Her Harvard colleagues and 17 U.S. sen- guage or middle-class expectations – to nobody else.” TODAY. ators have urged ICE to release her. denounce the conditions. USA TODAY asked ICE whether for- “One minute, I was in an immigration Now, with President Donald Trump’s eign travelers should expect to be de- office talking to an officer about my ‘That would be my crackdown, native English speakers, tained on an infraction of customs or work visa, which had been approved worst nightmare’ people with PhDs, and others are getting immigration law. The agency didn’t re- months before and allowed me, a Cana- the word out to a broader public about a spond to a request for comment regard- dian, to work in the U.S.,” she wrote. Longtime immigration attorney Len system they describe as arbitrary and ing its detention practices. “The next, I was told to put my hands Saunders called the Trump approach punishing. against the wall, and patted down like a “scorched earth.” He said border agents “It’s insane how easily someone can Not supposed to be punishment criminal before being sent to an ICE de- and customs officers have long had dis- take away your freedom, lock you in a tention center without the chance to cretion to let in someone whose paper- federal prison, without a clear reason. Because immigration and visa viola- talk to a lawyer.” work isn’t perfect, giving them a grace No explanation. No warning,” Aus- tions are civil, not criminal matters, ICE British backpacker Rebecca Burke period if necessary. tralian MMA coach Renato Subotic detention is supposed to be “non-puni- did chores for her U.S. host family. ICE But Saunders also noted that the wrote in an Instagram post after being tive,” according to the agency’s own detained her for 19 days, claiming she conditions and uncertainty Mooney, detained in early April. “Just like that, guidelines. should have requested work permis- Subotic and others experienced reflects you’re treated like the worst criminal.” But conditions vary widely in the sion, not a tourist visa, despite previ- standard practice once someone is in Like the other detained travelers, sprawling detention network overseen ously having been allowed in under the the immigration detention system. Subotic said he was trying to enter the by ICE, which includes government-run same circumstances. He said there’s typically a lack of ur- United States with a visa and was hand- and contracted facilities, said Deb Fleis- Burke said she was handcuffed, gency, especially because there aren’t cuffed after customs officers identified achaker, a former ICE official who served shackled, had her shoelaces cut off and enough immigration judges to hold paperwork problem. Instead of being under the Biden administration and the then discovered the ICE agent assigned hearings swiftly. In criminal court, de- refused entry to the United States and first Trump administration. to her case had gone on vacation while fendants are entitled by the 6th Amend- put on a flight back home, Subotic said “Legally, it is civil detention, not she was detained in a room with 100 ment to speedy prosecutions. But in im- he was taken to a chaotic federal deten- criminal detention,” Fleischaker said. other women. migration court, detainees can languish tion center for 24 hours. But “by and large, people are treated like Harvard Medical School researcher for weeks or months. Trump campaigned on tough new they are in jail.” Kseniia Petrova has remained in ICE de- “As an immigrant to this country, that immigration enforcement, particularly When the system gets overcrowded, tention for more than seven weeks with would be my worst nightmare, ending targeting violent offenders in the United conditions can deteriorate, she said. ICE no end date in sight. up in one those places,” Saunders said. States without legal permission. But the held nearly 48,000 people in detention The Russian native was returning “I feel sorry for these people.” [Page 87] NORWICHBULLETIN.COM | MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2025 | 3A Trump pressured over revoked visas International students In an April 16 announcement, Home- land Security Secretary Kristi Noem affected across country warned Harvard that it would lose both federal funding and the right to host in- Trevor Hughes ternational students if it doesn’t fall in USA TODAY line. Last spring, Harvard students pro- testing Israel’s retaliatory attacks on DENVER – Lawsuits, rallies and Gaza occupied the university’s central pointed bipartisan questions are ratch- courtyard for 20 days and staged a 24- eting up the pressure on the Trump ad- hour sit-in in another building. ministration to explain its growing can- University officials initially planned cellation of international student visas, to suspend five students for their partic- forcing hundreds of students and their ipation but downgraded that to proba- families to depart the country within tion, the Harvard Crimson student days. newspaper reported. The university A broadening number of students are also withheld degrees from 13 students suing to stop the revocations, which are during last year’s spring graduation cer- also being contested by 19 Democratic emony, prompting a 1,000-person walk- state attorneys general. Sen. Richard out, the Crimson reported. Blumenthal, D-Connecticut, has de- “Harvard bending the knee to anti- manded answers about what he called semitism – driven by its spineless lead- the Trump administration’s “arbitrary, Demonstrators stand in Harvard Yard after a rally was held against President ership – fuels a cesspool of extremist ri- craven cruelty.” Donald Trump’s attacks on the university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April ots and threatens our national security,” The Associated Press has tallied at 17. JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES Noem said in a statement. “With anti- least 1,000 revocations based on news American, pro-Hamas ideology poison- reports and university statements. The ing its campus and classrooms, Har- cancellations reflect a small percentage Federal officials have demanded Har- gotten several speeding tickets and in vard’s position as a top institution of of the estimated 1.5million interna- vard turn over a list of international stu- 2019 was ticketed for catching too many higher learning is a distant memory. tional students studying in the United dents who participated in those pro- fish during a church outing. Onda told America demands more from universi- States but have sent shock waves tests last year, and Harvard administra- the Deseret News that although his at- ties entrusted with taxpayer dollars.” through the collegiate community. tors refused. torney is fighting the cancellation, he’s She added: “Since Hamas’s Oct. 7, “It’s incredibly scary,” said Leo Ger- Blumenthal said there’s been more preparing to leave Utah with his wife 2023, attack on Israel, Harvard’s foreign den, 22, an international student from than 50 revocations in Connecticut, in- and their five kids. visa-holding rioters and faculty have Sweden studying economics and gov- cluding at Yale and Wesleyan. In a letter A coalition of attorneys general has spewed antisemitic hate, targeting Jew- ernment at Harvard. “It feels like we’re to the Trump administration, Blumen- joined a suit brought by the American ish students. With a $53.2billion en- being used as poker chips in a battle thal sought an accounting of how many Association of University Professors dowment, Harvard can fund its own with the White House.” visas have been revoked, the reasons seeking to halt the visa cancellations. chaos – DHS won’t. And if Harvard can- Gerden on April 17 helped organize a cited for each one and whether students Many critics of the cancellations say not verify it is in full compliance with its 300-person rally at Harvard, which is were afforded due process to contest the they appear to be targeted toward stu- reporting requirements, the university President Donald Trump’s latest target. decision. dents who participated in pro-Palestin- will lose the privilege of enrolling for- The president and his administration In some cases, students who are ian protests and represent an illegal eign students.” accuse Harvard, among other universi- within weeks of graduating are being ideological purge. The Anti-Defamation League, the ties, of allowing antisemitism to flourish forced home. Immigration experts said Trump administration attorneys say country’s largest Jewish rights group, on campus, endangering Jewish stu- they’ve never seen the federal govern- the White House has the right to order gave Harvard an “F” rating on its 2024 dents. More than 25% of Harvard’s total ment make such sweeping changes to noncitizens to leave the United States if campus safety report card last year, cit- enrollment is international students, the ordinarily low-profile process of they’re deemed a security risk. Secre- ing what it called a “serious problem” with about 6,800 of them this academic hosting international students. tary of State Marco Rubio has said he’s with antisemitism. year. In Utah, where at least 50 visas have been revoking visas based on support But in a statement released April 18, Harvard has refused Trump’s de- been revoked, Republican Gov. Spencer for terror organizations like the pro-Pal- the league said the administration has mands for dramatic changes to courses Cox said at a news conference he’s con- estinian Hamas. gone too far in its response: “They also and staffing, and federal officials subse- cerned the White House hasn’t offered Justice Department attorneys argued are insisting on reforms that go far be- quently threatened to ban the univer- any explanations, and Utah would “very in court this week that under both the yond ensuring the civil rights of Jewish sity from accepting international stu- much like to figure that out.” “federal immigration laws and well-es- students and faculty. They are imposing dents. Many of the students who’ve lost Among the students targeted in Utah tablished Supreme Court precedent, the or suggesting extremely severe penal- visas nationwide appear to have no con- is a Japanese national finishing his PhD government is able to take adverse im- ties that don’t tie to the issue of reducing nection to pro-Palestinian protest at Brigham Young University. His attor- migration action for certain expres- antisemitism, such as investigating its movements. ney told reporters that Suguru Onda had sion.” tax-exempt status.” [Page 88] [No extractable text detected on this page. See the archived PDF image.] [Page 89] [No extractable text detected on this page. See the archived PDF image.] [Page 90] [No extractable text detected on this page. See the archived PDF image.] [Page 91] Attachment 3 Questions and Answers from the EJ Public Participation Meeting that occurred on May 7, 2025 or that were received by SMART that relate to the permit application of SMART Technology Systems, LLC Listed below is a summary of the questions received during the Public Participation Meeting that occurred at Plainfield Town Hall on May 7, 2025. The answers to these questions were made during the Meeting, however, some of the answers below represent a more fulsome response than some of the answers that were provided during the Meeting. An unedited recording of the Meeting can be found on the SMART Technology Systems website at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 1. Where is the project getting natural gas from? The project will receive its natural gas from the local distribution company, Eversource, via its distribution line on Route 12. 2. What happens if hydraulic fluid spills? The facility will have a formal spill response plan. The plan, when developed, will include an inventory of spill control materials to be maintained at the facility, a listing of key personnel responsible for responding to spills, procedures for responding to spills, training requirements for all response team members, and a listing of “on-call” response contractors if additional resources are required. Notification will also be made to the local fire department and the CT DEEP Emergency Response and Spill Prevention Division. Typically, however, vehicle-related hydraulic fluid spills are small and easily controlled by facility staff using granular adsorbents. An example of such an adsorbent is common kitty litter; however, there are many similar products that are readily available. 3. Any plans for improvements in technology? Any changes we foresee? The project is currently investigating improvements in municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting technology by utilizing AI driven robotics and optical sorting. The use of such technology will enhance the facility’s recycling capabilities, particularly in sorting different grades of plastics and aluminum products in the waste stream. 4. Not confident of current federal regulations. How will enforcement work? The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP) has been delegated authority to implement and enforce the Federal Clean Air Act, as amended. In addition, Connecticut has its own State Air Quality Regulations, which in many cases refer to the Federal Air Quality Regulations, but in other cases may be more stringent—though never less stringent— than the federal requirements. The Abatement of Air Pollution Regulations are available on the Connecticut eRegulation System under RCSA Title 22a-174 and can be found here: 1 [Page 92] https://eregulations.ct.gov/eRegsPortal/Browse/RCSA/Title_22aSubtitle_22a-174/. CT DEEP, as well as the US Environmental Protection Agency, both have authority to enforce against violations of both the federal Clean Air Act and the State program requirements. In response to Question No 4, the concern was interpreted to relate to the possibility that more stringent federal Clean Air Act regulations that were proposed (though not finalized) by the Biden Administration might be altered by Executive Order. Our response to this concern was that the Clean Air Act was adopted by Congress and represent “the law of the land”. Furthermore, Connecticut independently enforces its own air regulations at the state level, and CT DEEP remains responsible for permitting and enforcement of all applicable air quality regulations. 5. How will this plant make money? How will we handle jobs? SMART has two development plans to generate revenue from this project. The first option is to provide a permitted, approved facility ready for “turn-key” construction to a Connecticut Waste Authority in response to a Request for Proposals (RFP) issued by the State of Connecticut. Alternatively, we may proceed with development in partnership with a group of private investors, allowing us to build and operate the facility as a private entity The operating facility is expected to create approximately 160 full-time jobs. If the Connecticut Waste Authority owns and operates the facility, it will be responsible for hiring the necessary personnel or contracting a company to manage operations. If SMART develops the project with private investors, we would likely engage a company that specializes in plant operations for this type of facility. SMART would recommend that priority be given to hiring employees from the Plainfield community. 6. Would like us to provide pictures of what the site will look like from the outside. Renderings of the project can be found using this link: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/project-location-overview-rend 7. One speaker wants to know what we are going to do to pay for taxes. She has a separate cost benefit analysis. In the past, waste processing projects were typically built and sold to Resource Recovery Authorities. These authorities are “quasi-public” entities that generally do not pay property taxes. To address this, developers would enter into PILOT (Payment in Lieu of Taxes) agreements with the host communities. These agreements would then passed on to the Resource Recovery Authority, which would make the agreed-upon payments to the local municipality. 8. Why build in Plainfield? The project site is currently owned by a member of the development team. In addition, the site offers access to essential infrastructure, including electrical interconnection, water, sewer, natural gas, and transportation routes for vehicles. 2 [Page 93] 9. Questions are asked about ash disposal and whether such disposal will be going to be open beds. A link to the ash disposal process is provided to illustrate how it operates: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/PG. Ash will be handled in a totally enclosed environment and will not be handled in open beds. 10. Commenters asked what will happen to their roads. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (DOT) is responsible for maintenance and repair of all State roads. Thus, the roads that will be primarily used by the project will be maintained by DOT, not the Town of Plainfield. 11. What will the impact be on residents’ property values? We have designed the project to be built within property currently owned by O&G in a manner to minimize the impact of our facility on neighbors abutting the property. We have included major environmental systems to reduce any impacts such from noise and odor. Truck traffic for delivery is limited to Monday through Friday deliveries. While we cannot be certain of any impacts to property values of the project, we should note that property tax burdens will be lowered significantly due to the SMART project’s payment of new taxes. If the project is constructed, the project would be among the top ten taxpayers in the Town of Plainfield. We will work with neighbors to keep any potential negative impacts on their property minimal. 12. Question about how much water is going to be used? The Facility will utilize approximately 27,000 gallons of water per day for process and domestic systems. The water will be obtained from the Connecticut Water Company. No wells will be constructed to obtain this water. 13. One commenter asked why the project was not being built in Hartford where MIRA was? As an initial matter, we would note that the site where MIRA was located in Hartford is not currently available to SMART Technology to use for this purpose. Moreover, at this stage in development, SMART Technology would need to ascertain whether this location is appropriate for the project as designed. Finally, as several commenters noted during the May 7 Meeting, residents from Hartford would likely oppose locating such a facility at that location. 14. Sharon Lewis, of the CT Zero Waste Coalition Comments. In her view, no community needs to have an incinerator in it. She indicates that she’s from the CT Zero Waste Coalition and opposes the project. She says there are studies that show property values will be significantly reduced. 3 [Page 94] 15. How will we control the doors, etc. When do the trucks go through the doors? The fast-acting doors will be equipped with a photo-cell sensor that will open the door when a vehicle gets within a certain distance and closes when the vehicle clears the entrance. The proposed doors will open in 5 seconds and close in 10 seconds upon clearing of the entrance doorway. 16. How many towns will be bringing their waste here? We know that Plainfield produces approximately 9,700 tons of MSW per year. The SMART project is designed to process 468,000 tons of MSW per year. If the project is owned and operated by a Connecticut Waste Authority entity, it is likely to have several Connecticut towns participating and sending their waste to the project. if the project is a fully private project, the companies involved in waste hauling in Connecticut would be the most likely candidates for delivering waste to the project. 17. Are we going to pay taxes, or do we have a PILOT? At the present time we do not have a PILOT agreement with the Town of Plainfield. As the project moves forward, we will be holding discussions with the Town of Plainfield on this issue. In addition, the project would like to discuss entering into a Community Benefit Agreement with the Town of Plainfield to provide the Town with additional funding/benefits. 18. Is the State Department of Public Health (DPH) working on this? At this point in the project’s development, only an air permit has been applied for to the DEEP, and the DPH is not involved in that proceeding. However, the project will be applying for approval from the Connecticut Siting Council, and at that time, the DPH will be solicited by the Siting Council to provide the Council with comments on the project. 19. Chair of Planning and Zoning for the Town of Plainfield states that this project is not consistent with the Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development. As mentioned above, the project will be seeking approval for the project from the Connecticut Siting Council. One of the items that the Council will evaluate is consistency of the project with the Town’s Plan of Conservation and Development. 20. Do we have our financing? At present we have been in discussion with a number of entities specializing in financing these types of projects. We do not currently have a signed agreement for the financing but feel confident that we can achieve this goal as we move forward with the development process. 4 [Page 95] 21. Can the town be a partner in this? The Town of Plainfield could participate in the project if the project is constructed by a Connecticut Waste Authority. If that method of project development is used, and the Town of Plainfield becomes a member of such an authority, it would participate in the project. Regardless of whether the Town participates in a waste authority, SMART would also be able to enter discussions with the Town of Plainfield to provide substantial community benefits. This could include some type of electrical offtake agreement between the Town of Plainfield and SMART as well as discussions to provide MSW processing at the preferred rate. 22. What’s the design life of the plant? The facility will be designed for a fifty (50) year life span. 23. If the project was turned down by the Town of Plainfield’s Planning and Zoning Commission, why is the project here now? SMART participated in a presentation before the Plainfield Planning & Zoning Commission in 2024. At that meeting, O&G was requesting consideration of a change of the zone to allow for the development of an environmental-industrial park on the 506-acre property. This would have included the SMART project as one of several different developments. That request was turned down. Our current SMART project has a significantly smaller footprint and is less ambitious, recognizing and responding to the comments that we received at that meeting in April 2024. 24. Do we think their volunteer fire department could handle a gas fire issue? The plant would work with the Plainfield Fire Chief / local fire department to develop site-specific training which would include identification of hard-to-access locations, specific hazards, special equipment needs, ladder access to personnel platforms, etc. The plant would employ two full time firemen, build an onsite firehouse and equip it to support the plant needs. These firemen would train a team of plant first responders which would be present on all shifts to support the fire department. This system would be backed up with a Fire Rover system (https://firerover.com) which provides 24/7 remote fire detection allowing for swift response using precise suppression to extinguish fires before the spread. 25. What is our projected revenue? The revenue stream for the SMART project development depends on whether we have the opportunity to participate in an RFP to be issued by the State of Connecticut as part of a Connecticut Waste Authority. If that is the case, the project would have to respond to the RFP, and the SMART revenue would be based on the turn-key price submitted in the bidding process. We are still early in development and as indicated at public hearings, we have completed approximately 30% of our engineering. The alternative development calls for permitting, development and construction of the project by SMART in conjunction with private investors. The current tipping fee prices continue to increase. 5 [Page 96] The cost of development and construction also continues to increase. Therefore, accurate revenue projections cannot be made at this time. 26. Do we think we could put this in other towns in Fairfield County? We believe that this project, with our unique MSW processing system design, can be built anywhere there is sufficient land for development and suitable infrastructure (roads, gas and electric lines, etc.) 27. Will there be oxygen in the RDF facility? Has it been used elsewhere? There will not be oxygen in the RDF facility. SMART has integrated a state-of-the art Bulk Handling System and Anerobic Digester (AD) that sorts the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF). The solid fuel is then injected into an oxygen starved gasifier vessel and kept in circulation. Utilizing a chemical reaction in the gasifier (no combustion) the solids are then transformed into a gas where they are then cleaned and cooled. The technology is currently being utilized in Europe. 28. Is the air in Plainfield going to be cleaner or dirtier? This question should be clarified and posed to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (CT DEEP), the agency tasked with maintaining regulatory compliance with National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) in Connecticut. Continuous compliance with all NAAQS defines “Clean Air” everywhere in the US, via documentation of achieving stringent human health and welfare air quality standards developed by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and implemented by US EPA and CT DEEP. These standards, by definition, as established and as continually reviewed based on emerging science, have been determined under the Clean Air Act to be fully protective of the health and welfare of every US Citizen, including asthmatics, infants, children, the elderly and the infirm. Please refer to the Ambient Air Modeling Study provided in the SMART Air Permit Application, which documents using, very conservative EPA Air Quality Modeling, that the proposed addition of the subject facility would not result in any condition of air pollution in Plainfield or anywhere else that would endanger human health or the environment. No Permit to Construct could be issued to this proposed facility unless CT DEEP has also issued an Air Permit confirming that all Federal and State adopted standards in Plainfield, and everywhere else, will be fully protected. The questioner at the Public Meeting asked if the proposed facility would “pollute” the ambient air in Plainfield. The answer is: In order to receive approval to construct, the facility shall document that it would not pollute the ambient air in Plainfield or anywhere else. 6 [Page 97] 29. Who is going to pay for decommissioning? Who’s going to pay if it fails? The project will support any costs associated with decommissioning. To that end, the project is willing to provide for a decommissioning bond or other financial assurance mechanism to ensure the decommissioning is appropriately and fully funded. 30. What’s going to happen with the ACOE permit? U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Permit No. NAE-2004-01447 was issued to O&G Industries on September 2, 2014. The work-to-be-completed that was authorized by the Permit never commenced. This Permit expired on July 16, 2016, but was reissued on October 18, 2016, with an expiration date of August 19, 2021. Again, the work-to-be-completed that was authorized by the Permit never commenced and the Permit has not been reissued since that time. 31. How will the project account for the noise of the trucks? The on-site speed limit will be limited to 15 MPH, on specific marked, paved and SMART- maintained routes, that include vegetated buffer spaces between the 81.2-acre developed parcel of the 506-acre site and nearby residences. These features are being designed to help mitigate on- site traffic noise compared with general traffic noise from a wide range of vehicles travelling at higher speeds on existing state roads. As shown in the materials presented at the informational meeting, waste delivery trucks will only unload once marshalled inside of an acoustically designed tipping building, at which point the overhead doors will close automatically. Noise from discharging the loads of waste to the tipping area will be mitigated by doing so within the designed indoor enclosure. The tipping area itself will be of concrete construction and below grade which will further mitigate noise from this operation. CT requires strict provisions to eliminate stationary idling of trucks on site. These requirements will be posted via signage as a requirement of waste delivery contracts. These contracts will be more fully described when SMART applies for its Solid Waste Permit Application. Backup alarms are required by the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Backup alarms, during the reverse movement of trucks, save lives, and are not optional. SMART has designed a partial enclosure (as shown on the materials presented at the May 7 Meeting) to screen and mitigate backup alarm noise (together with the vegetated buffer areas) to help shield residential receptors beyond the site property limits. Such noise (which generally travels in straight lines) may also reflect off smooth, hard (reflective) surfaces such as a steel building wall. SMART is further evaluating acoustic treatment of the overhead doors semi- enclosure to further mitigate reflected noise due to back up alarms – this is being done in response to comments received during the May 7 Meeting. Vegetation attenuation, including arborvitae and other conifers, is a modeled element with accepted mitigation factors for noise. Additional trees will be planted in specific areas around the exterior of the property that will minimize noise at the property line. 7 [Page 98] 32. Will we have water waste? What’s our water waste solution? The facility will generate domestic wastewater and a relatively small amount of boiler drain (blowdown) wastewater. These wastewaters are planned to be pumped through a dedicated force main to the Plainfield North Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTW). Other wastewater will be hauled to out-of-town licensed/permitted facilities on an as-needed basis. 33. Where do we get our noise numbers from? The plant will follow the State regulations of 51dbA at night and 61dbA during the day noise emissions from a Class C emitter to a Class A receptor. 34. What permits is the project applying for? There are three major categories of permits that the facility will need to construct and operate the facility. As discussed at the May 7 Meeting, the facility has applied for permits to operate and construct the facility in accordance with the Clean Air Act, as administered by CT DEEP. In addition, the facility will require a variety of solid waste permits which will also be issued by CT DEEP. Finally, the facility will also require approval from the Connecticut Siting Council before construction can begin. In addition to those permits, the project will require a variety of other permits, such as a pretreatment permit from the local publicly-owned treatment works, and building and electrical permits. As permits are applied for and obtained, a record of such permits can be found on the project’s website at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 35. Does anybody here have the power to terminate the project? The SMART Technology stakeholders are the decision makers for the project. They have the ability to terminate the project. In addition, there are several regulatory agencies, including, but not limited to CT DEEP and the Siting Council that can ensure that the project cannot be constructed if permit limits are not met. 36. Is there any intention to use the railroads? The use of the railroad lines in the area is currently being investigated as a method for bringing waste to the site. No final course of action has been determined at this time. 37. Will the slides and this session be available to the public? Yes. The Environmental Justice Public Meeting Presentation, slide deck, recording of the proceeding, and other supporting documents have been added to the SMART website. These materials can be accessed at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 8 [Page 99] 38. Commenters inquired as to compliance with CT DEEP Natural Diversity Database (NDDB) requirements. We have not relocated nor plan to relocate any species listed on the NDDB. Additional correspondence on the NDDB status for the project is attached to the air permit application and can be found on the SMART website at https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/Home. 39. Can we provide more photos of actual plants? Lahti Video. A video of the plant in operation in Lahti, Finland can be accessed on the SMART website under the Project Technology & Videos tab at https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/PG. 40. What did we take away from this panel? The project recognizes that the residents of Plainfield have significant and understandable concerns about a project of this scope coming into their community. However, we continue to believe that as more information regarding the project, and the steps being taken to alleviate concerns about adverse impacts, such as noise, odor, visibility and traffic issues are taken into consideration, it is SMART’s hope that the community will agree that the project can be a meaningful method to address some of Connecticut’s waste issues. 41. Have we had conversations with members of the Town? The project has had discussions with the First Selectman to provide him with background information about the project and to work with Plainfield to provide the required Environmental Justice opportunity for the people of Plainfield to provide their thoughts and concerns. 42. Did we get a positive response regarding this project? We have provided information about the project and asked for assistance and feedback in connection with the public participation efforts associated with the project. 43. Is this an incinerator? The term incineration has multiple definitions, however in the world of waste elimination, it is generally used to mean burning of raw trash for the purpose of destruction and to yield an inert ash residue. Some of us may remember in our childhood a ventilated barrel in the back yard, where dad burned our household trash once a week. In some rural areas, we brought our trash to the town landfill, the face of which was constantly burning. The current fleet of mass-burn municipal waste combustors in CT similarly burn raw MSW for the purpose of destruction and volume reduction since all of it is fed to the furnace of an incinerator that is fueled by natural gas continuously to reduce its volume to ash for landfilling while also producing some renewable electricity. This process is a form of wholesale raw MSW incineration. 9 [Page 100] In the SMART process, raw MSW is not simply combusted en-mass for the purpose of volume reduction. Many components of the raw MSW will be extracted (separated) out of the waste stream for recycling and reuse. Doing so removes these items from the waste stream completely. Similarly, food waste quality and other refined organics will be diverted to anaerobic digestion to be reformulated to beneficial renewable natural gas and liquified food grade carbon dioxide for sale. These recyclables, that would otherwise be incinerated in a traditional MSW to energy plant, are instead recovered from the raw waste for beneficial reuse rather than burned for the purpose of destruction. The pre-separation processes proposed for SMART will produce a residual fuel stream called Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF), which is no longer raw MSW, but rather a purified, sized, and dried fuel. In Europe, RDF is marketed as a valuable fuel. That said, SMART does not propose to combust the RDF, but rather the project will alter its physical and chemical composition in two specially engineered gasification (or “pyrolysis” units) which will further remove inert solids and will alter the chemistry of the produced RDF stream. The RDF is not combusted in the gasifiers (i.e., there is no flame inside). The complex hydrocarbon chains that make up the RDF Fuel stream are broken into smaller (gaseous) molecules during the very common pyrolysis reaction, such as hydrogen (H2), carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), nitrogen (N2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) which are the same constituents, albeit in different proportions, as pipeline natural gas. This cleaned low BTU synthetic gas (Syngas) is a viable clean and valuable fuel source that SMART will combust in a boiler for energy recovery. No one would characterize the controlled combustion of clean syngas as incineration any more than a home heating system would be said to “incinerate” home heating oil or natural gas. SMART is not “selling” this distinction – the differences between wholesale incineration of raw MSW and the physical and molecular disassembly of MSW components are scientifically factual. The proposed SMART process will not incinerate (or even combust) raw MSW for the purpose of destruction. In the preamble and comments to EPA’s New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) applicable to MSW to energy plants, EPA explains that they are different technologies but decided to regulate both under the existing “incineration” rules since from a macro perspective, raw MSW comes in and renewable energy and residuals come out. That said, in 2024 EPA proposed and even finalized new emission requirements for all new, Large Municipal Waste Combustors (NLMWC’s) that no known US Mass Burn Facility has yet been required to meet. The SMART facility had to first identify technology capable of meeting these new Emission Standards and found gasification in the EU as the technology needed to meet them. Bottom line – SMART gasification technology is guaranteed to meet EPA’s proposed air emission limits, now – traditional waste incinerators do not. The ability to markedly reduce air emissions to the environment is the reason SMART stresses that this technology is not your grandfather’s incineration plant. 44. What other towns did we consider? We have reviewed possible development in a number of towns in Connecticut. Obviously, we have been looking at towns which already have a resource recovery authority facility operational in their 10 [Page 101] community. The O&G property in Plainfield was selected because of the ready availability of a number of key infrastructure elements for project development and the close highway access. 11 ACTIVE/84477.1/LHOFFMAN/20411095v2 [Page 102] Attachment 4 Answers to Questions Received from the CT Zero Waste Coalition 1. Is gasification the technology your facility will implement to dispose of waste? - Do you confirm that this process uses heat to convert waste from a solid state to a gaseous state? - Do you confirm that whatever toxics existed in the waste pre gasification, remain post gasification? SMART proposes two energy conversion technologies to convert waste. The video presented at the May 7 Meeting (a copy of which can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News) answers the first part of this question. Gasification and anaerobic digestion are offered as energy conversion technologies for renewable electricity and renewable natural gas production along with carbon capture. Waste is also processed for recyclables with an advanced material recovery facility. Once pyrolysis is initiated, natural gas is no longer consumed in the pyrolysis chamber and gasification sustains itself through the exothermic heat it generates, while converting solid fuels into gaseous fuels. SMART cannot confirm that all toxic substances present in the waste before gasification remain unchanged after the process. Gasification is a chemical transformation that converts solid fuel (waste) into a gaseous state, leaving behind precipitates (ash). The CT Zero Waste Coalition (CTZWC) is encouraged to view the video explaining the gasification process available on SMART’s website at the link listed above. Once converted into a gaseous state, the output undergoes a proprietary filtration system along with four additional industry-standard treatment processes to ensure that emissions meet both federal and state Air Pollution Control (APC) regulations. The resulting ash, which includes treatment chemicals, will be managed in compliance with environmental regulations—either disposed of at regulated facilities or used beneficially at permitted sites. SMART is committed to operating a facility that complies with the U.S. EPA’s New Source Performance Standards for emissions. For more detailed information, please refer to the CT DEEP air permit application available on the SMART website. 2. At the Waste Hearing on January 22, William Corvo said that this facility will be “in the middle of nowhere.” Will you clarify what he meant by that? - It sounds like he’s calling the people of Plainfield disposable, will you comment on that? We presume that the hearing being referred to is the Joint Informational Session on Municipal Solid Waste convened by the Connecticut General Assembly’s Energy and Technology and Environment Committees on January 22, 2025. Assuming that is the case, the comment referred 1 [Page 103] to the fact that this project is proposed in the middle of a 506-acre property that has been used as a sand and gravel facility. By proceeding in this fashion, the project will have substantial buffer space to eliminate negative impacts on property owners adjacent to the 506-acre space. The site was chosen with that in mind. Mr. Corvo has never referred to the people of Plainfield as disposable at any time, including, but not limited to, that public meeting. SMART representatives, including Mr. Corvo, attended the May 7 Meeting to provide a full technical presentation of our new technologies and their substantial benefits and to listen to the people of Plainfield. We did this for nearly four hours in an effort to demonstrate that we care about the people in Plainfield and take their concerns seriously. 3. At that same hearing, William Corvo said the state needs 6 facilities like the one Smart Technology is proposing. According to his own calculations, that would cost 360 to 420 million. How does that solve our problem of increasing waste disposal costs and tipping fees? - Will tipping fees increase to pay for such expensive developments? The SMART Technologies Plant is a response to the CT DEEP Comprehensive Material Management Strategy’s goal to develop next generation materials management technologies or “Eco-industrial parks [that] can co-locate multiple recycling / conversion processes.” The assumption that the State of Connecticut would need approximately six facilities similar to the SMART Technology project is based on the amount of municipal solid waste that the state produces. Each project will have different costs, depending on a variety of factors, so no cost estimates have ever been prepared for six such facilities. The issue of solving the “problem of increasing waste disposal costs and tipping fees” is under examination by CT DEEP and other State agencies as part of a comprehensive evaluation of Connecticut’s waste processes. It should be noted that if nothing is done, Connecticut municipal solid waste will continue to be shipped out of state to landfills at an ever-increasing environmental and financial cost. SMART believes in-state facilities using modern technologies will substantially lower both negative environmental impacts and waste disposal costs. 4. Also in that session, William Corvo said that this facility is designed to process 9,000 tons of MSW per week. How many trucks will be hauling those 9,000 tons of MSW into Plainfield per week? The facility is designed to process 9,000 tons per week. Delivery of the waste calls for this waste to be delivered Monday through Friday. The approximate truck traffic is 600 trucks per week, or 120 trucks per day. 2 [Page 104] 5. Your letter to us says you will process 1,800 tons of MSW per day which comes to 12,600 tons per week. How will you process that much when your facility is meant to process 9,000 tons per week? The facility will receive 9,000 tons of MSW per week (1,800 tons – Monday through Friday – 5 x 1,800 = 9,000). The facility will process the waste seven days per week. 6. William Corvo mentioned the BHS sorting system that relies on Artificial Intelligence. We are increasingly switching to artificial intelligence in every job sector, replacing human beings as a workforce. Artificial Intelligence is known to consume a tremendous amount of water, our most valuable resource. How is this improving the circumstances of people in Plainfield or in the rest of Connecticut? The total consumption of water for the project will be approximately 27,000 gallons per day and will have no negative impact on the people of Plainfield. 7. Will you name all the projects that use the Valmet gasification system? During the May 7 Meeting, the SMART team made reference to a sister plant in Lahti, Finland. A video of the sister plant has been made available on the SMART project website. Additional references can be found for all Valmet projects at their website or by contacting Valmet. 8. How is the oxygen taken out of the tube containing the RDF? SMART assumes that this question pertains to the gasification plant which operates in a sub- stoichiometric environment. Oxygen is not taken out as it is added in the correct amount to the fuel flow by instrumentation and controls to assure gasification is taking place. 9. The solids that separate from the gas and turn into ash, does this go to landfills? If so, where? If not, where does it go? Three ash streams come from the Valmet gasification process: a. Bed ash b. Filter ash c. Bag house ash SMART intends to seek beneficial reuse for the bed ash and baghouse ash streams. During plant startup, ash will be sent to a landfill. Simultaneously, samples will be taken to determine the appropriate beneficial use for the ash so ash streams can be redirected. The filter ash may go to landfill or may be blended at an approved beneficial reuse processing plant. There are no current contracts for a specific landfill. 3 [Page 105] 10. Bill Corvo mentioned working with the state to borrow money and fund the project. Does that mean that the people of CT are paying for it? The State of Connecticut is considering developing a “Connecticut Waste Authority” system. The entities that will own and operate the Connecticut Waste Authority projects will be quasi- governmental entities. This is anticipated to be similar to the Resource Recovery Authority method used to create Connecticut’s waste processing facilities. The Connecticut Waste Authority system would operate with Connecticut bond funding as opposed to revenue from tipping fees from the facility. Should the State proposal not move forward, we are prepared to develop the SMART project as a private facility. 11. Bill Corvo announced plans to take this technology throughout the country. This sounds very ambitious. Do you plan to make a lot of money off this system and ever- increasing waste production? SMART Technology Systems, LLC is a private development company. It is in business to make money – it is not a public entity. Our proposed SMART technology provides a massive improvement in the proper handling of MSW with the lowest possible negative environmental impacts. SMART is providing a solution for MSW processing. Put another way, SMART’s goal isn’t to profit from the existence of waste, but to help reduce its impact. The system is designed to provide a more sustainable and responsible way to manage waste that already exists—and unfortunately, is still growing globally. While the business needs to be financially viable to operate and scale, our success is directly tied to helping communities and industries become more efficient, circular, and less dependent on harmful waste practices. 12. What was the 1250 tons per week that Bill Corvo mentioned at the MSW session in January? 1285 tons per day may have been a reference to 9000 tons per week that will be processed divided by seven days of processing. 13. How is the gas filtered after the heating process? After exiting the gasifier, the synthesis gas is cooled and cleaned through ceramic filters. For more information, please see the video on the SMART website explaining the gasification filtration process and synthesis gas filtration process. 14. Will you break down what happens in the steam turbine? The turbine converts thermal energy to mechanical energy. The steam expands and cools as it travels through the steam turbine and turns rotating blades connected to a rotor which turns the electrical generator. 4 [Page 106] 15. Because your business model depends on waste production to be profitable, do you think that your operations will set us back from more sustainable solutions to our waste crisis like waste prevention, source separation, composting, reusing, repairing, and extended producer responsibility? The SMART project is designed to provide a comprehensive solution to MSW processing maximizing recycling and including anaerobic digestion for source separated food and biogenic material. It completely embraces source separation, composting, and reusing. Its recycling system provides a methodology which achieves these goals even when consumers do not engage in food separation and other required recycling. 16. It appears that you are selling gasification as a method distinct from incineration. - If Gasification is not incineration, why are Gasification and pyrolysis facilities regulated as "waste combustion units" under the federal Clean Air Act? At the time that the Municipal Waste Combustion regulations were written by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), they did not contain specific rules for gasification technologies. Gasification technologies were later included into subsequent revisions to those regulations along with combustion technologies. This was explained at the May 7 Meeting. While the EPA has issued an advanced notice of public rulemaking for pyrolysis/gasification, we believe the specific definition referenced is contained in the current rules found in 40 C.F.R. § 60.51b. SMART’s engineering team is familiar with these existing regulations and is also monitoring the EPA’s efforts to make a distinction between pyrolysis and gasification versus combustion in written determination letters for other solid waste fuels. - Do you know that the European Union recognizes gasification as a form of incineration? SMART is not developing a MSW recycling and energy conversion project in the European Union. However, our understanding of the regulations is that they are similar to the U.S. but with the exception that purified synthesis gas separates gasification from incineration. - How much waste will your facility need to be profitable? Please review the submitted air permit application for the planned incoming waste flow rate of 468,000 tons per year or the 9000 tons per week. SMART is currently building the plant model around this foundational number. 17. How much waste will be hauled in from outside of Plainfield? The annual MSW to be processed is 468,000 tons (9,000 per week x 52). Plainfield’s annual MSW is approximately 9,700 tons (January 2024 estimate). The balance of the waste to be processed is 458,300 tons per year, which would come from outside of Plainfield. 5 [Page 107] 18. How does your facility charge for your services? The SMART plant will apply a tipping fee for all acceptable waste delivered to the facility. 19. Gasification facilities in Europe rely on high tipping fees and public subsidies, will this be the case with your facility? SMART is not developing a MSW recycling and energy conversion project in the European Union. SMART anticipates that its project will help lower tipping fees. 20. Have you negotiated a tax stabilization agreement with the town of Plainfield? - Is this publicly available? - Can you break it down for us? We have not yet finalized a tax stabilization agreement with the town of Plainfield. 21. Can you break down for us how gasification produces less air emissions than other forms of incineration? First and foremost, the syngas will be cooled and cleaned with ceramic filters prior to thermal oxidation. In addition, gasification is a sub stoichiometric, exothermic chemical reaction operating at a considerably lower temperature than mass burn facilities. The SMART gasification plant will operate between 1380°F and 1560°F. The process is oxygen limited which promulgates the exothermic chemical conditions. Unlike mass burn facilities that utilize excess air, gasification facilities use an oxygen limited environment where significantly less nitrogen oxides are produced due to no excess air or combustion. Excess air supports combustion where less air than is required to support combustion supports gasification. Typical traveling grate mass burn plant achieve 1800°F on and directly above the grate while temperatures in the upper vapor space reach 2200°F or greater. For more information, please see the air permit application for the facility, which can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 22. Are you aware of the closure of Thermoselect, a gasification facility in Germany, for failing to meet the EU’s emissions standards? - How will your facility be different from Thermoselect? SMART is not aware of the closure of the Thermoselect plant, nor is it aware of the specifics of that facility’s technology. SMART, however, anticipates that its project will establish new Best Available Control Technology (BACT) for Waste to Energy (WtE) plants. In so doing, it will not only meet existing emissions standards, it may very well set the new emission standard other plants will need to meet going forward. 6 [Page 108] 23. Why do you call refuse derived fuel a renewable energy source when it comes from waste made from fossil fuels? This is a mischaracterization – Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) is derived from Municipal Solid Waste (refuse), not fossil fuels. - Does it require fossil fuels in waste to be a fuel source? No. In this case, the RDF is only derived from delivered MSW. 24. Will you provide a list of all byproduct pollutants from your proposed operations? Please see the air permit application for all appropriate emissions both anticipated and regulated. That can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 25. Will you describe how all byproduct pollutants will be disposed of and/or recycled? Please review the videos available on the SMART website. They can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 26. Does your operation produce byproducts such as ash, slag or tar? - Where and how are you disposing of these byproducts? - How are you monitoring the toxics in these? - Will you need to landfill any of this? If so, where? Three ash streams come from the Valmet gasification process: a. Bed ash b. Filter ash c. Bag house ash SMART intends to seek beneficial reuse for the bed ash and baghouse ash streams. During plant startup ash will be sent to landfill, simultaneously samples will be taken to determine the appropriate beneficial use for the ash so ash streams can be redirected. The filter ash may go to landfill or may be blended at an approved beneficial reuse processing plant. There are no current contracts for a specific landfill. 27. Is there a reliable market for all recycled items? The project will have contracts with metal, glass, and electronics recyclers. - Can you guarantee these items are not contaminated with PFAS, toxics, and/or heavy metals? If so, how? There is no technology, including landfilling of MSW, that can make such guarantees. 7 [Page 109] 28. Are you testing for PFAS, toxics, and/or heavy metals in the digestate from your anaerobic digester? We do not propose testing the digestate from our anaerobic digester for these contaminants. We will be using the digestate as alternate daily cover at the landfill and our primary strategy for managing these substances is to remove as much as possible from the waste stream before it enters the digester. 29. On your website, it says that the material can be used as an Alternative Daily Cover or beneficial reuse in other applications. Will you please elaborate? What specifically would the product of Anaerobic Digestion be used for? The SMART facility aerobic digestion system is designed to produce compost with a reduced methanogenic potential. The compost volume reduces to 35% moisture and 65% dry solids with very little remaining potential to produce methane in a landfill. Future plans may include further processing of a portion of the compost for soil amendment. - Do you have a reliable market for the Anaerobic Digestion products? Yes. Renewable natural gas (RNG) and food grade CO2 are both marketable products. 30. Is there combustion of any kind in your facility? Synthesis gas is cooled and filtered and then sent to a thermal oxidizer for heat and steam production. - It looks like there are 4 possible points of burning, can you describe how many burning circumstances there are in your facility? In other words, are you burning something and where are you burning it? Please refer to the air permit application, which identifies all the emission sources. This can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. - After the waste is heated to create gas, is the gas then combusted? Yes. - How many turbines are associated with this facility? One steam turbine. - How do you power the turbines? Is burning fuel a power source? As has been explained in greater detail above, after the refuse-derived fuel undergoes pyrolysis, the resultant synthesis gas is burned to heat a steam boiler that will power the turbines. 8 [Page 110] - Materials in the trash contain oxygen, so how can you guarantee there is no oxygen in the gasification chamber? Please note that gasification is sub-stoichiometric and uses limited oxygen, not zero oxygen. 31. Beyond air emissions, how do you monitor the toxics in recycled products? The toxics in recycled products, if any, are not monitored. 32. How do you monitor toxics in the refuse derived fuel? RDF is processed for gasification and does not require analysis. 33. What distinguishes this facility from any other Refuse Derived Fuel facility? As indicated in the May 7 Meeting, this facility contains new technology that has never been combined in this fashion in the United States. We are not certain how to compare it to “any other Refuse Derived Fuel facility.” 34. Does your facility require more or less energy to operate than it produces? The parasitic load required to operate the plant is significantly less than the plant’s gross output. It will therefore be a net generator of electricity. - How do you determine that? The electric revenue meter. 35. Are there additional emissions produced by the energy needed to run the facility? Please review the air permit application for this data, which can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 36. Can you provide precise data on the emissions we can expect from your facility? Please review the air permit application for this data, which can be found at: https://us.planengage.com/smartmswprocessing/page/News. 37. Your website features graphs that need clarification. - In the Smart vs existing CT Resource Recovery Facility emissions graph, which existing CT RRF facility are you referencing? If the answer is an aging or closed incinerator like MIRA, that is not a fair comparison. In addition to the closed MIRA facility, TRC also compared the individual Title V Air Permits for the Bridgeport, Lisbon, Bristol and Preston plants, however, each facility has a different capacity in tons per day, and the individual Permits in some cases utilized different emission 9 [Page 111] units, making them difficult to directly compare. For this reason, TRC converted all units for each pollutant presented in the bar charts to comparable units of lbs of air pollutant per ton of MSW processed. In addition, it should be noted that the SMART facility is designed to meet the Federal EPA’s new source performance standards. 38. You have mentioned that your facility will cost 600-700 million to construct, how does a project so expensive alleviate CT’s increasing waste disposal costs? Connecticut’s waste disposal costs are increasing on an annual basis. This is due in part to the need to ship Connecticut waste to out-of-state landfills. The transportation costs are paid for by increasing “tipping fees” which are the payment per-ton charged for processing or landfilling MSW. Currently Connecticut is shipping more than 1,000,000 tons to out-of-state landfills. The fact that the four remaining resource recovery projects operating in Connecticut are each more than thirty years old and use older unacceptable technologies with unacceptably high emission rates will also increase cost to replace these projects. 39. You also say that it will cost millions of dollars to upgrade existing facilities. How does that compare with the 600-700 million to develop yours? Back-end air pollution control APC upgrades are costly endeavors, they do not always result in emissions levels as low as new technologies, they do not increase diversion rates, recycling rates, and they do not qualify facilities as energy conversion facilities. Thus, even if such upgrades are slightly cheaper, the benefits of the new technology SMART is proposing outweighs any slight increase in cost. 40. How much will this facility cost to maintain and run yearly? The estimated operating cost for the facility has not yet been finalized. 41. How do you expect to recover the investment and maintenance costs? The SMART project has been intentionally tailored to provide strong cash flow by leveraging multiple long-term revenue streams from energy, tipping, recycling revenues, renewable fuels, renewable energy credits, and tax credits. 42. How long do you expect your facility to run efficiently before repairs or updates are needed? The facility receives perpetual maintenance and service. It is anticipated that such maintenance will occur two times per year. 10 [Page 112] 43. How will you know the amount of emissions your facility will produce at any given time? Continuous emissions monitoring equipment will be in place. - In other words, how will you monitor this, and how often? Continuously through continuous emission monitoring systems. - How can the public access this information? Through CT DEEP. - Will there be fence line monitoring? Fence line monitoring is not anticipated at this time. 44. How do you determine the emissions data you report on your website, considering you’ve yet to operate such a facility? Are you using the best case scenario, because data from previous and current gasification facilities is uncertain? Original equipment manufacturer data is generated from sister plants while pollution control systems have been engineered and guaranteed to meet emission standards by the equipment suppliers. Thus, such data is not “uncertain.” Moreover, such data will be evaluated by CT DEEP as it examines the project’s air permit application. 45. Plainfield is already home to a super fund site, is there a bonding agreement in the event that this facility is not financially viable? Not at this time, however, the Connecticut Siting Council and the CT DEEP have the authority to require such bonding. 46. Public funds are necessarily spent all throughout this process, to review your permit applications, to hold hearings like this one, and to monitor emissions from your operations. Does your proposal consume a lot of public resources that might be otherwise allocated for waste reduction efforts? No. Our proposed development is required to follow Connecticut law. The law requires the submission and processing of permits and the holding of public hearings. The permit applications require payments of fees at the time of submission to help pay for the processing of such applications. The successful permitting and development of the SMART project would provide a major improvement in MSW recycling and processing for Connecticut. 11 [Page 113] 47. Will you have to gasify recyclables in order to have enough high carbon material to generate electricity? No. - If this is the case, doesn’t this negate renewable energy claims, because the fuel you need to make fuel is made of fossil fuels? The goal is to separate and recycle recyclable materials, not gasify them. - Does the environment fare better from recycling recyclables or gasifying them? The environment fares better from recycling, which is why the SMART has spent significant time and effort into developing its material handling system so that additional recyclable materials will be removed from the MSW waste stream, along with organic materials. - Is it true that gasification produces much less energy than traditional incineration? No, the gross energy output would be similar. 48. Are you aware of gasification operational and economic failures leading to closures here in the U.S. and in Europe? SMART is aware of some facility closures, and understands that there are numerous gasification technologies present in the marketplace. As stated above there are numerous technologies or types of gasifiers. None of the projects referenced are from the SMART OEM Valmet. 49. Your website boasts that it will fall beneath EPA accepted emissions limits, but these limits are not based on health standards, they are based on what is achievable by incineration facilities. It would be unwise to set any safe limit on toxics above zero. Can you comment on this? The Federal EPA standards as well as the CT DEEP standards are based upon environmental health and public health studies. Regulatory limits are not based upon “what is achievable by incinerators.” 50. Your website also boasts SMART MSW Technologies estimated "stack emissions" from "main boiler" to equal 281.50 lbs CO2e per One Million British Thermal Units (MMbtu). Are you aware that a coal power plant can do better than that with emissions at 205-250 lbs CO2 per MMbtu.? As a clarification, Greenhouse Gas equivalent (CO2e) emissions are generally expressed in units of equivalent metric tons (tonnes) per year emitted. In this calculus, a metric ton emission of 1 tonne of N2O equates to 256 tonnes of CO2e, 1 tonne of CH4 equates to 28 tonnes of CO2e and 1 12 [Page 114] tonne of CO2 equates to 1 tonne of CO2e. In the main stack, all of the carbon present within the projected syngas will be fully oxidized to CO2. As with the range for CO2 from coals with different carbon content referenced, pyrolysis in the gasifiers produces syngas prior to thermal oxidation including the combustibles carbon monoxide (CO), methane (CH4), ethane (C2H6), propane (C3H8) and perhaps other hydrocarbons. This description is consistent with synthesis gas composition sampling from the Lahti, Finland facility. Note that these carbonaceous gases are common clean fuels – meaning they combust very readily when exposed to thermal degradation and oxygen. In the SMART Process, these components of synthesis gas burn out very completely to CO2, at a 1:1 ratio of CO2e. Landfill emissions from the same waste will emit significantly more methane and CO2e than the SMART facility. In addition, in contrast to the existing CT mass burn fleet, the SMART facility proposes to divert a significant portion of its organic waste to anerobic digestion, which will produce renewable natural gas (to replace an equivalent amount of fossil natural gas), and can be used in CT homes for cooking and heating. In that process, SMART proposes to capture all of the CO2 generated from Anerobic Digestion, which will be liquified and sold in the commercial market as food grade CO2. Overall, when comparing SMART’s CO2e emissions to landfilling or to other facilities, SMART’s proposed project will produce less CO2e than any existing MSW technology in CT. 51. Another proposal for New Haven and North Haven called AB/Eco Park made the same first of its kind claims that you make, and that proposal was denied due to public resistance and insufficient responses to requests for information. Will you provide a list of any other first of its kind facilities like yours? While the gasifier is not the first of its kind and the anaerobic digestion processing plant is not the first of its kind, and the material Recovery Plant is not the first of its kind, the co-sited or integrated package of technologies is the first of its kind. The original equipment manufacturers can be contacted for details on their equipment and offer appropriate reference lists. 52. Lew Dubuque from the National Recycling Association says that we are not in a waste crisis, that 40% of trash going out of state is below the national average. He also says that the majority of the trash is transported on rail with very low greenhouse gas emissions. Could trucks hauling MSW from all over the state to your facility potentially emit more greenhouse gases than rail cars to other states? This is not a discrepancy, but rather a difference of opinion. Mr. Dubuque feels that out-of-state landfilling is a better methodology for handling Connecticut’s MSW problem. SMART believes that Connecticut can evolve MSW processing within the State which will provide a responsible solution that creates higher recycling and substantially lower emissions. This would require six processing facilities like the SMART project handle Connecticut’s MSW in-state. Transporting Connecticut’s MSW to out-of-state landfills without using existing recycling systems produces substantial amounts of greenhouse gases (especially methane). 13 [Page 115] 53. Lew Dubuque also says that we don’t need another MSW management facility in CT while William Corvo says we need 6. Can you explain this discrepancy? Please see the answer to #52 above. 54. What did William Corvo mean when he suggested that the state borrow money and that he wants to work with the State? - Does he want taxpayers to fund this project? The State of Connecticut has provided Resource Recovery Authority projects with funds from State bonding for the development of existing waste processing facilities. The State of Connecticut has been discussing creation of quasi-governmental Connecticut Waste Authorities to undertake future developments. If the State does not move forward with this approach, projects would be designed and built using private investors for these developments without taxpayer funding. 14 ACTIVE/84477.1/LHOFFMAN/20412525v2