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FINDINGS OF FACT METROPOLITAN METALS RECOVERY AND PROCESSING FACILITY Environmental Assessment Worksheet Zt►e !fe taropol i tan Re cove recovery and �' Corporation (d'iRC) is proposing to construct a a►etals processing facility. The facility will wastes, and ion exchange resin canisters obtained fromsoli process solid and liquid metal platers, printed circuit manufacturers and mfinishing b metal finishi and ether (metal finishers) to recover metals and metal precipitates f businesses and will transfozm wastes into solids to be disposed in or sale and reuse, approved landfills. An environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) was prepared for the cordance with 6 MCAR 63.038.0.2. The EAW proposal in ac- pertine reviewed in accordance with 6 MCAR 63.028. D to determine thematerials ro ose have been has the potential for significant environmental effects. The f proposed project elusions of that review are contained in this do findings and con - Parentheses. current. References are given in I • TYPE, E3t'1'ENT AND FXMRSI9IL17Y OF E W1p4!NMNTAL EFFECTS A. Project Size and Cost The project will Consist of the construction of a metals recove Processing facility which will oc �' and square warehouse at 500 - 30th Avenue Northeast, Minneapolis. of an existing will treat and dispose of bastes from metal fact within �efacility metropolitan area to the extent they utilize the facility. In the letter from Pope -Raid Assaciates, dated Juble 21, 1983, (EAW attach- a�ent), it is stated that about seventy ion exchange canisters r da �Y be expercted from shops that expressed interest in the facility Y and that about 30 shops had announced their intent -ion to use the Y facility by May 1, 1983. of Au witted to utilizing the 9�t 30, 1983, 20 shops have ccom-� of ninety-six 'grin Cities metal dfinishers �and t*10at- laters Of a Possible total tiaAal metal waste �'oPlaters. Addi- in t' na generators are expected to commit to the facility response to the notice of violation recently sent by the Metro- politan Waste Control Commission (MWCC) requiring the generators to commit either to utilizing the proposed central facility or to installa- tion of their own pretreatment facilities. Currently, 10 of the 20 shops tted to utilizin the facility hav=; signed "take or a � 9 Proposed s. tracts can be used to eatimatept.'�e ®nimuanContractnumberta from Canthesesters con - Wight or volume ox bulk dump liquids and sludge cake to be trR�tad/ dialposed of by the proposed facility,, at leant for a 10-shop case. This data, although it Weatly underestimates the amount of wastes me to be treated by the facility (by a possible f tjs), does provide a rough estimate of actor of three ten as the project site. Currently,