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RELEASE <br />August 25, 1983 <br />FROM: The Minnesota Waste Management Board 5� G <br />7323 - 58th Avenue North, Crystal, MN 55428 C <br />C CONTACT: Patrick Hirigoyen <br />(612) 536-0816 <br />(Outstate 1-800-652-9747) <br />MINNESOTA WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD <br />SELECTS "PREFERRED AREAS" <br />FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE PROCESSING FACILITIES <br />IN TWIN CITIES METRO AREA <br />Thirteen different areas in twelve Twin Cities Metropolitan - <br />area communities --including two in St. Paul and large tracts of <br />industrially zoned land in Minneapolis --have been selected b the <br />e <br />Minnesota Waste Management Board as "preferred areas" for hazardous <br />waste processing facilities, where the Board will encourage private <br />developers to obtain sites for such facilities as chemical waste <br />treatment plants, storage facilities and incinerators. <br />In a meeting today at the State Office Building in St. Paul, <br />Cthe Board voted to select --with some reductions in the size of <br />several areas --areas proposed earlier in St. Paul, Cottage Grove, <br />a <br />Rosemount, Inver Grove Heights, Roseville, Shakopee, Fridley, Plymouth <br />Lakeville,'Forest Lake, and Ramsey. <br />In addition, the Board accepted a proposal by the City of <br />Minneapolis under which all industrially -zoned areas in which the <br />city's "performance standards" would permit hazardous waste proces--. <br />sing facilities will be considered "preferred areas." <br />Of the 16 areas originally proposed by the Board as preferred <br />areas in the Twin Cities Metro area in December, 1982, only an area <br />in Hastings was eliminated. The Board cited the area's soil and <br />aquifer conditions and relatively poor transportation access for its <br />decision. <br />(more) <br />