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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 3 October 1984 CASE NUMBER: 1547-84 APPLICANT: Metropolitan Recovery Corporation LOCATION: South of Rose Place, Easterly of Walnut Street ACTION REQUESTED: Amendment to Zoning Ordinance PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. Metropolitan Recovery Corporation, the applicant in this case, is a recently formed entity consisting of 27 companies who have joined together to develop a metals processing treatment and recovery facility to treat their residual waste discharge, which up to now has largely been flushed down the Metropolitan sewage system resulting in heavy metals pollution of the river system below the Pig's Eye Treatment facility to points through and beyond Lake Pepin to the south. You are all familiar with this problem to varying degrees. Federal and state legislation requires that such trace amounts of heavy metals such as cadmium, chrome, copper, lead, zinc, and nickel be removed from the effluent from municipal treatment plants and all industrial users discharging to such plants. A recent study committee from the Metropolitan Council has recommended that a central plant be constructed in the Twin Cities to handle the industrial processing required. Though the processes involved are safe, they are in some cases expensive, and therefore, a group of 27 (earlier consisting of 26) users propose to construct a facility that will serve their needs as well as a long list of potential users in and near the Metropolitan Area. This concept has been endorsed by the EPA and the PCA, and is, of course, heavily controlled by both. 2. The concentration of need in the Twin City Area is, of course, brought about by the extensive high-tech/electronics industrial base in Minnesota. The larger of these companies engaging in metal plating, finishing, and printed circuit fabrication process their industrial wastes within their own facilities. Such companies include Sperry, Control Data, Honeywell, 3M, etc. Thus, the facilities being proposed are in fact operating already and constitute no particular hazardous facility in processing. The principal health hazard is in allowing heavy metal residuals to pollute aquatic life which then may be eaten by humans. 3. Attached you will find extensive materials submitted by representatives of and for the Metropolitan Recovery Corporation which more adequately describe the proposed facility and its operation. Representatives from the company and from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will be at the Planning Commission and Council meetings to further explain and answer questions regarding the proposal.