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• <br />(0e4obeyk <br />A I, )�e3 <br />1771'r) e C', PC 1; Ic <br />Metrowaste - <br />[�nft <br />Support s <br />concept of <br />metal recover*y. <br />The • Metropolitan Waste Control <br />Commission has declared its unani- <br />mous support for the idea of a plant <br />that would treat hazardous metallic <br />wastes and .recover metals .for. re- <br />•ice'?'�,'••�I •' t: . .w` <br />Peter Wisterhaus, an administrative <br />assistant .for the commission,: said <br />the agency's .'action. Tuesday, -is the <br />first step toward the possible sale of <br />industrial. development • revenue <br />bonds by • the Metropolitan CounciL . <br />The commission's resolution does _ <br />not commit either agency to the*pro• <br />ject nor does it identify a cost for the. <br />Although a:firm called Metropolitan, <br />Recovery. •Corp :already Las pro.:. <br />Posed a $7.million.recovery plant in <br />northeast Minneapolis, the commis'. <br />Sion has been told.. by its attorneys <br />that it must seek bids for such a <br />project. . <br />Metropolitan Recovery's idea is to <br />gather. wastes. from electroplating, <br />metal -finishing and circuit -board <br />.firms in -the Twin Cities before the <br />discharges enter the area's sewers. - <br />After the wastes are treated at the <br />plant, the resulting sludge would be <br />sent to a -landfill while recovered <br />metals such as copper, nickel. and <br />cadmium could be sold on the open <br />market. The plant will not be built in <br />time to meet an April federal dead- <br />line for treating -such wastes,; and <br />Westerhaus said the commission,will <br />have to take up the matter with fed- <br />eral offidiais in coming months. <br />.f <br />