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C <br />MCIC <br />In April, 1982 the Board selected eight preferred areas for <br />hazardous waste processing facilities in eight communities out- <br />side the Twin Cities Metro area: <br />Willmar, Crookston, Fergus Falls, <br />Rochester, st. Cloud, Duluth, Owatonna and Mankato. <br />In addition to the Board's acceptance of the Minneapolis <br />proposal, it also reduced the size of many of the areas from that <br />originally proposed, based on information and a variety of local <br />concerns identified during the Board's public hearing process. <br />Only the areas in Forest Lake, Rosemount and Roseville were not <br />reduced by the Board. . <br />If hazardous waste processing facilities are established <br />within preferred areas, they would likely handle such chemicals <br />and materials as solvents, acids, inks, cyanides, oils and greases <br />and heavy metal wastes. <br />In its draft Hazardous Waste Management Report, released <br />August 3,..the Board estimates approximately 174,000 tons of hazardous <br />wastes are generated in Minnesota each year, and that approximately <br />80 percent of the total originates in the seven -county Twin Cities <br />Metro area. <br />Minnesota's hazardous wastes are generated by chemical industries, <br />rubber and plastics firms, metal fabricators, printing firms, <br />platers and circuit board manufacturers, and a wide range of other <br />industries. <br />The Board has identified hazardous waste reduction and treatment <br />as preferred to land -disposal, and sees the establishinent of new <br />treatment facilities as necessary in reducing the state's dependence <br />on the land -disposal of hazardous wastes. <br />-30- <br />