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Town of Brookhaven · Suffolk County, New York · August 2026 Executive Brief
Advanced Circular Manufacturing · Community Engagement Package

Town of Brookhaven Manufacturing Feedstock Opportunity

Brookhaven is not shopping for a better disposal price. It is about to lose disposal capacity entirely, in a region where replacing it is illegal. The Brookhaven Landfill permit at Yaphank expires 11 July 2026; the Town is seeking extension to 2027–2028. The Long Island Landfill Law of 1983 bans new Long Island landfills outright — it passed after leachate reached the region’s federally designated sole-source aquifer. This package defines the addressable feedstock, the commercial structure, the economic delta, and the action required.

~1,102 TPD Addressable Feedstock · ESTIMATED Landfill Permit Expiry 11 July 2026 Zero Town Capital · Carbotura-Financed Circular Royalty™ from Year 2

Engagement Path — Follow the Numbers

1 LOI / MOU engagement begins A non-binding Letter of Intent / Memorandum of Understanding. It opens the engagement, establishes the joint working group and data exchange, and carries no cost and no obligation for the community. Steps 1–5 are paper — typically 3–18 months in total.
2 Term Sheet verification & terms The verification phase. Feedstock streams, volumes, and the community’s disposal-cost basis (FWDC) are confirmed, the site is selected, and the per-tonne commercial terms are agreed before anything is signed long-term.
3 CSA execution = T0 The Circular Supply Agreement — a minimum 30-year supply contract with perpetual continuation. Execution starts the project clock (T0). It locks the Beneficiation Fee, the Circular Royalty™, the feedstock commitment, and site access.
4 Underwriting Carbotura-financed Carbotura arranges 100% of the facility financing under its Build-Own-Operate model. The community contributes zero capital and takes no construction or financing risk; an 18-month Parent Performance Guarantee backs all payment obligations.
5 Permitting manufacturing basis The facility is permitted as manufacturing (NAICS 31–33), never as waste processing. Both parties commit to the Regulatory Predicate Transition — the endpoint is categorical: manufacturing classification across all permitting, licensing and regulatory contexts.
6 Deployment build · 12–18 months The facility is manufactured and deployed in standardized 100 TPD modular increments rather than built as one-off construction — a 12–18 month build from CSA execution to commissioning.
7 COD & Royalties royalty +13mo after first fee Commercial Operations Date: the facility begins accepting feedstock. The Beneficiation Fee applies to delivered tonnage, and the first Circular Royalty™ payment follows 13 months after the first fee payment, then monthly, escalating every year.

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Carbotura · Advanced Circular Manufacturing · Community Overview
Package Hub · Town of Brookhaven, NY · 5 Documents

What this package is

A complete Advanced Circular Manufacturing engagement package for the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York. Five documents covering feedstock diagnosis, deployment structure, economic impact, the action brief, and the community narrative. One decision drives all five: execute the LOI/MOU.

Three things this package establishes
  1. The Brookhaven Landfill permit expires 11 July 2026; extension is sought to 2027–2028. Under the 1983 Long Island Landfill Law, no replacement Long Island landfill is permittable. This is a capacity cliff, not a price problem.
  2. The regionally endorsed alternative — rail export off Long Island — converts a closing asset into a permanent, escalating, exported operating cost with zero local return. Advanced Circular Manufacturing keeps the material, the manufacturing value, and the royalty on Long Island.
  3. Under a 30-year Circular Supply Agreement, Phase Initial at 400 TPD produces a cumulative Circular Royalty™ of $829.4M and ~200 direct manufacturing jobs. Phase Expanded at 1,200 TPD produces $2.488B and ~600 jobs (ILLUSTRATIVE).
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~1,102 TPD
Town-Wide Addressable Feedstock
ESTIMATED
400 → 1,200 TPD
Phase Initial → Phase Expanded
Capacity replication
$829.4M
30-Yr Circular Royalty™ · Phase Initial
Illustrative · $2.488B at Phase Expanded
~200
Direct Jobs · Phase Initial
~600 at Phase Expanded
489,810
Town Residents
2024 Census
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Decision Window: Authorise the Deployment Study The Brookhaven Landfill permit expires 11 July 2026, with the Town seeking extension to 2027–2028. No replacement Long Island landfill can be permitted under the 1983 Long Island Landfill Law. Every month of deferral moves the Town closer to a rail-export cost structure that is permanent by design.
11 July 2026
Regulatory Context · Active Corrective-Measures Process
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Revised Corrective Measures Report due on or about 3 November 2026
Separately from the permit expiry, the landfill is inside an active NYSDEC corrective-measures process under 6 NYCRR Part 363-10.1. The Department returned the Town’s draft Corrective Measures Report of May 2026 unapproved on 5 August 2026, with 40 technical comments. A revised Report is due within 90 days — on or about 3 November 2026. The measures under evaluation are immediate closure and capping, landfill reclamation, groundwater extraction and treatment, enhanced leachate plume monitoring, and municipal water connections. The Town’s cost framework expresses each as total debt repayment, a township-wide property-tax increase, and an annual tax impact to the average home over the term of borrowing. Under Part 363-10.1(b)(2), a selected measure must protect public health and the environment and attain the facility’s groundwater protection standard. It must also control the sources of releases to the maximum extent practical and comply with other applicable state and federal requirements. The Town, not the Department, selects the measure.
This engagement package uses planning-basis estimates where confirmed figures are not yet available. The ~1,102 TPD town-wide addressable volume is ESTIMATED: the Long Island regional per-capita generation average (4.5 lb/person/day) applied to the Town’s 2024 Census population. The Town does not publish a town-wide generation tonnage. Absolute dollar values — the Beneficiation Fee (TMC Fee) per ton and every derived Circular Royalty™ figure — require Deployment Study verification against Town and hauler-specific manifests. Term Sheet confirmation follows, before budget commitment. Structural relationships (Beneficiation Fee formula, Circular Royalty™ formula, fiscal period sequence) are contractually standard.

SEPARATE TRANSACTIONS — applies throughout this page: the Beneficiation Fee and the Circular Royalty™ are two independently reported gross transactions, never a netted position.
Five Documents · One Structure · One Decision
Executive Brief · Action Instrument
Executive Brief
The permit expires 11 July 2026 and a replacement landfill is not permittable on Long Island. One resolution preserves every option; inaction routes the Town onto a permanent export-cost structure. Closes on Brookhaven now, Long Island next.
Next action: Execute the LOI/MOU →
Open document ↗
Feedstock Study · Diagnostic
Feedstock System Analysis
Brookhaven’s estimated ~1,102 TPD of addressable manufacturing feedstock. The “Ash for Trash” arrangement with Covanta Hempstead, the 1983 Long Island Landfill Law, and NYSDEC Part 360 permitting. Plus the sole-source aquifer that shaped all of it.
Feedstock volumes ESTIMATED →
Open document ↗
Proposal · Transaction Structure
Deployment Proposal
A 30-year Circular Supply Agreement (CSA) converts Brookhaven’s addressable feedstock into an independent Circular Royalty™ receipt stream, with zero Town capital. Payments begin 13 months after Carbotura’s receipt of the first Beneficiation Fee payment. One commercial structure: Beneficiation Fee (TMC Fee) plus Circular Royalty™.
Beneficiation Fee set at Term Sheet →
Open document ↗
Economic Impact Review · Delta Analysis
State A vs. State B
ACM deployment replaces an export-dependency trajectory with retained local manufacturing value: ~200 direct jobs at Phase Initial (~600 at Phase Expanded) and ~65,700 tCO₂e/yr displaced. The per-ton Circular Royalty™ exceeds the Beneficiation Fee from Year 2 onward.
Dollar values illustrative →
Open document ↗
Community Benefits · Plain Language
What Brookhaven Gains
Manufacturing jobs in Yaphank, monthly Circular Royalty™ income from Year 2, zero Town capital, and aquifer protection. No permanent export dependency — Brookhaven’s materials become synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, and recovered minerals instead of being shipped off Long Island forever.
Plain language · community audience →
Open document ↗
Circular Royalty™ · Structural Summary
How the Circular Royalty™ Works
The Circular Royalty™ is a contractual obligation — not projected upside. The formula is locked at Circular Supply Agreement execution. Figures below are ILLUSTRATIVE, computed at a $100.00 Year-1 Beneficiation Fee. The fee itself is set at Term Sheet.
Year 1
Pre-Royalty
Brookhaven pays the Beneficiation Fee at $100.00/ton on delivered feedstock. No Circular Royalty™ is received. This 12-month period is structural — it must be recognised separately in Year 1 budget planning.
$100.00 fee
Year 1 · per ton
Year 2
Royalty Begins
Rolling monthly Circular Royalty™ begins 13 months after Carbotura’s receipt of the first Beneficiation Fee payment. It pays 120% of that same year’s escalated Beneficiation Fee: $120.00 per ton against a $102.50 fee. At Phase Initial (400 TPD) that is $17.52M in Year 2; at Phase Expanded (1,200 TPD), $52.56M.
$120.00 royalty
Year 2 · per ton
Years 5–20
Steady State
The Beneficiation Fee escalates 2.5%/yr while the Royalty Multiplier rises +1 percentage point per year. Year 5: $132.46 royalty against a $110.38 fee. Year 10: $155.96 against $124.89. Year 20: $215.23 against $159.87.
$215.23 royalty
Year 20 · per ton
Year 30
Term Maximum
Cumulative 30-year Circular Royalty™: $829.4M at Phase Initial, $2.488B at Phase Expanded.
$295.48 royalty
Year 30 · per ton
Priority 1 Site Candidate
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Yaphank / Horseblock Road Corridor
A roughly 500-acre Town-owned waste-management complex at Yaphank, within which the landfill cells sit. It offers existing Town solid-waste infrastructure and established heavy-vehicle access. Critically, the Town’s own stated post-closure vision is to redevelop the landfill site as an “energy park.” The Yaphank Fuel Cell Park already operates on the site. An ACM module here lands on already-industrial, already-Town-controlled ground rather than greenfield. It manufactures synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, and recovered minerals, plus net-positive ultrapure water, from material that would otherwise be railed off Long Island. Approximate centroid 40.8987, −72.9026 — ESTIMATED, not a confirmed site coordinate. Permitting path: NYSDEC Region 1 pre-application meeting with the Regional Permit Administrator → 6 NYCRR Part 360 series application → Town siting and zoning → Suffolk County environmental review coordination. Regulatory predicate transition is a pathway to be pursued, not an accomplished fact.

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Documents & References
Executive Brief
Feedstock System Analysis
Deployment Proposal
Economic Impact Review
Community Benefits
Long Island Landfill Law & Part 360
Authoritative Glossary
Execute the LOI/MOU

Basis of Presentation

Basis of Presentation — Assumptions & Confidence

Source-of-truth references for the key figures cited throughout this hub. Full Assumption Registry available on request from the Town of Brookhaven engagement team.

FieldValueConfidenceSource
Town population489,810VERIFIEDU.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts (PST045225), 2024
Town-wide addressable feedstock~1,102 TPD (~402,000 tons/yr)ESTIMATED4.5 lb/person/day (Long Island Regional Planning Council) × Census population — municipal solid waste only; landfill leachate and wastewater treatment sludge are also accepted feedstock streams, volumes not yet quantified
Beneficiation Fee Year 1$100.00/tonMODELEDIllustrative modelling basis — set at Term Sheet
Beneficiation Fee escalator2.5%/yr compoundedCanonicalMASTER_RULES §4.2
Circular Royalty™ Multiplier120% Year 1 → 150% Year 31, +1pp/yr, uncappedCanonicalRoyalty formula, Corpus Release 31
Circular Royalty™ Year 2 / Year 30$120.00 / $295.48 per tonMODELEDMultiplier × same-year escalated Beneficiation Fee
CSA term30-year minimum + perpetual continuationCanonicalMASTER_RULES §4.7
Direct jobs50 FTE per 100 TPD — ~200 / ~600MODELEDCarbotura standard deployment model
Carbon displacement0.45 tCO₂e per tonne processedMODELEDCarbotura baseline
Permitting authorityNYSDEC Region 1 · 6 NYCRR Part 360 seriesVERIFIEDNYSDEC Region 1 (Nassau + Suffolk)

Confidence flags follow the Carbotura Confidence Flag classification: VERIFIED (contracted or audited) MODELED (calculated from documented inputs) ESTIMATED (best-available, fixed at Term Sheet phase).

Before the LOI/MOU

Six Questions That Decide Everything

Three to open the conversation. Three to close it. If the answers run the way they always do in Brookhaven, the LOI/MOU writes itself.

Three Questions to Open · The Yeses
01
Does the Town of Brookhaven face the loss of its own disposal capacity, with no permittable Long Island replacement?
YES
The Brookhaven Landfill permit expires 11 July 2026, with the Town seeking extension to 2027–2028. The Long Island Landfill Law of 1983 bans new Long Island landfills and closed all but two by 1989. It was enacted after leachate reached the region’s federally designated sole-source aquifer. Municipal landfilling on Long Island ended in 1990. There is no local replacement to permit.
02
Would the Town welcome a 30-year Circular Royalty™ that begins in Year 2 and converts a disposal cost into a recurring receipt stream?
YES
At Phase Initial (400 TPD), the Circular Royalty™ is $17.52M in Year 2 and $43.14M by Year 30 — $829.4M cumulative over the term (ILLUSTRATIVE). Carbotura finances, deploys, and operates; the Town contributes feedstock access, not capital. Payments begin 13 months after Carbotura’s receipt of the first Beneficiation Fee payment and run the full CSA term.
03
Would the Town rather keep the manufacturing value on Long Island than pay, in perpetuity, to rail the material off it?
YES
Rail export is a permanent, escalating operating cost with zero local economic return. The routes are the Winters Rail Terminal beside the landfill site and the Townline Rail Terminal at Kings Park. Advanced Circular Manufacturing keeps the material, the ~200 to ~600 direct jobs, and the Circular Royalty™ inside the Town, manufacturing synthetic graphite, graphene compounds, and recovered minerals.
Three yeses. One follow-up.
If the answer to all three is yes — and it always is — the only remaining question is why the LOI/MOU has not been executed. The three questions below make that silence impossible to maintain.
Three Questions to Close · The Consequences
04
What contracted Advanced Circular Manufacturing agreement has the Town executed to replace the capacity it is about to lose?
NONE
No advanced circular manufacturing agreement exists at Brookhaven’s scale. The “Ash for Trash” arrangement with the Covanta Hempstead facility returns ash to Yaphank — and Yaphank is the asset that closes. There is no competing offer that keeps material, jobs, or a royalty on Long Island.
05
Is the rail-export trajectory cost-stable for the Town over a 30-year horizon?
NO
All ten Suffolk Town Supervisors and the County Executive have endorsed rail export as the one clear regional answer, at an estimated ~6,000 TPD of transfer capacity. That answer solves the capacity cliff by exporting it. Haulage, transfer, and out-of-state disposal costs escalate indefinitely, with no royalty, no manufacturing base, and no local retention to offset them.
06
How long does it take to deploy Advanced Circular Manufacturing in Brookhaven after the LOI/MOU is executed?
YEARS
Deployment Study verification, NYSDEC Region 1 pre-application and 6 NYCRR Part 360 permitting, Town siting and zoning, and Suffolk County environmental review coordination run on a multi-year timeline. Module manufacture and integration follow. The permit expiry does not move to accommodate that schedule. Starting later does not make it shorter.
Execute the LOI/MOU → Landfill permit expires 11 July 2026 · Read the Brief
Programme Overview · General Audience

What Adopting Carbotura Changes →↗

Programme-level explainer: the single Circular Supply Agreement structure plus the universal Exogenesis™ bonus, the fiscal timeline, the State A vs State B delta, and the Regulatory Predicate Transition pathway. Applies to every community.

Learn about the programme →↗