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. Description of Request (attachment to 2004 Land Use Application) Revised December 29,2004 Summary Ramsey County requests approval of a used oil collection facility and a seasonal household hazardous waste collection site at the new Public Works facility in Arden Hills. Both economic and environmental benefits to County residcnts will result from the combined used oil and seasonal HHW facility. The proposed facility would be consistent with the functions and operations of the existing Public Works facility. The site plan and operations of the proposed facility are appropriate to the site, neighborhood and surrounding land use. [nformation in support of this request is provided below for the City's consideration, including additional information requested by the Planning Commission at its December 1,2004 mccting Background . Public Works has operated a public uscd oil and filter collection facility at its former Shoreview location for many years. The Department of Public Health is seeking to construct a new seasonal collection site for household hazardous waste (HHW) collocated with the Public Works' proposed used oil and oil filter collection facility. This seasonal HHW site would replace the seasonal site currently located in the parking lot of the Ramsey County ice arena in Shoreview (Victoria St. at Hwy. 96), which has been in service since 2000. That site was installed to provide convenient HHW services to residents of northwestern Ramsey County following the closure of the Mounds View year-round HHW facility that accompanied the County Board's selection of Bay West, Inc. as HHW vendor in late 1999. The year-round HHW facility is now located at Bay West's corporate headquarters at 5 Empire Drive in St. Paul. The current used oil collection facility provides several benefits: 1) lt reduces the amount of used oil that is collected at the County's Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection sites, and is a less expensive way to manage used oil generated by the public. The previous facility collected more than 40,000 gallons of used oil annually. 2) The facility is part of the County's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit storm water pollution prevention program to reduce illegal dumping into its storm sewer system. 3) The facility benefits citizens by providing a reliable used oil and filter disposal location at no cost to the user. The Shoreview HHW seasonal collection site has so far fulfilled its goal to provide convenient HHW services to residents of northwestern Ramsey County, having served over 9, I 00 households during the lour years since opening. The site opcrates in accordance with a conditional use permit granted by the City of Shore view. That pernlit expires in June of2005, and includes a condition stating that "lfthe County relocates their Public Works facility to the Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant (TCAAP) property in Arden Hills, the household hazardous waste facility shall be moved to that site." The St. Paul-Ramsey County Department of Public Health completed its ninth recycling survey during July and August 2004. The 10-minute telephone survey included 600 residents from Ramsey County (4% margin of enor). The survey results showed use of HHW sites increased . from 1999 to 2004, with 56% of respondcnts in 2004 reporting use of a site. 1