Short-Term Environmental Justice & Climate
Connect trade waste companies with City resources or programs related to environmental justice, waste equity, and worker rights
Population focus: General
Goal ID: BIC-G01
BIC · Agency plan
Business Integrity Commission
Preliminary REP pages 165-169
Plan area: Infrastructure and Environment
2 Short-Term
2 Medium-Term
2 Long-Term
Mission & Commitment
The Business Integrity Commission (BIC) regulates New York City's private sanitation industry to ensure fair, safe, and ethical business practices. BIC's equity goals focus on reducing barriers to entry for M/WBE businesses in the private sanitation sector, improving workforce diversity, and ensuring equitable regulatory enforcement practices.
Short-Term Goals
Short-Term Language Access & Translation
Increase investment in translation and interpretation services to promote language accessibility and ensure that agency information is accessible to diverse New Yorkers
Population focus: Immigrants / LEP
Goal ID: BIC-G02
Medium-Term Goals
Medium-Term Language Access & Translation
Ensure that BIC’s website is fully accessible in plain language and includes reference materials for new applicants, licensees and registrants, and the public to eliminate information deficits
Population focus: General
Goal ID: BIC-G03
Medium-Term Sanitation, Waste & Public Cleanliness
Increase agency efforts to ensure compliance with Local Law 56 of 2019 (Local Law 56), which requires trade waste companies to directly provide and post specific wage and workers’ rights information for employees
Population focus: Agency staff / employees
Goal ID: BIC-G04
Long-Term Goals
Long-Term Procurement & M/WBE Contracting
BIC has had a 30% goal for M/WBE utilization and will continue to implement and evaluate goals going forward to ensure they are consistent with federal, state, and local law
Population focus: M/WBE owners
Goal ID: BIC-G05
Long-Term Sanitation, Waste & Public Cleanliness
Assess the impact of adverse BIC determinations on workers and employment stability at licensed trade waste companies
Population focus: General
Goal ID: BIC-G06