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<br />Soil Contamination and Clean Up. One of the current issues facing potential <br />developers of property is liability due to contaminated soils. Minnesota was one <br />of the first states to address, through statutes, the liability issues associated with <br />buying, selling, or developing property contaminated by hazardous substances. <br />The Minnesota Land Recycling Act of 1992 provides statutory authority to <br />quickly approve clean-up of contaminated properties and provide landowners <br />and lenders assurances, which minimize potential liability. The Minnesota <br />Pollution Control Agency's Voluntary Investigation and Cleanup (VIC) program <br />was established to provide standards for site investigation, provide Minnesota <br />Pollution Control Agency review of the adequacy and completeness of <br />investigation, and provide clean-up plans to address identified contamination. <br />The City has worked with the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to provide <br />various levels of assurance to voluntary parties completing response actions, <br />property owners, financial institutions, and future property owners. For <br />example, the City and Ryan Companies have utilized the VIC program in the <br />clean-up of the former Midwest Great Dane site on County Road C and Prior <br />A venue. CSM Corporation also used this program to clean up the former <br />Ettinger site on County Road C, west of Highway 35W. The VIC Program will <br />continue to be important to future redevelopment in the City. <br /> <br />Vegetation. Currently the City's program consists of using available grant <br />programs and matching funds to plant trees in various areas throughout the <br />City. The qualifications for areas to be considered for planting are those where <br />street reconstruction has been completed and areas where tree loss has occurred <br />due to street reconstruction or disease. Two other programs that are available to <br />City residents that contribute to reforestation are the "round up program" where <br />residents are able to round up the amount of their water bill to the next even <br />dollar and that portion of the payment goes to the reforestation fund. The <br />second event that occurs every spring to benefit the reforestation of the City is a <br />tree purchase day, which occurs during Earth Week. The City will purchase a <br />large number of trees and resell the trees to property owners that are interested <br />for an amount to recoup the City's initial purchase costs. <br /> <br />Residential Curbside Recycling. <br />Roseville contracts for every-other-week curbside collection of recycling at <br />single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, four-plexes and townhomes. <br /> <br />Residents sort material into two categories: paper products and containers. <br />Paper products include newspapers, magazines, phone books, books, junk mail, <br />boxboard and corrugated cardboard. Containers include aluminum cans, tin <br />cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles with a neck (HDPE and PETE). <br /> <br />Recycling levels have remained relatively stagnant since 1992. That mirrors State <br />trends. <br /> <br />Roseville Comprehensive Plan - 2002 Update <br /> <br />Executive Summary -Page 13 of 16 <br />