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FINDINGS OF FACT CENTRAL TREATMENT AND RECOVERY FACILITY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT WORKSHEET The Metropolitan Recovery Corporation (MRC) is proposing to construct a metals recovery and processing facility in Roseville, Minnesota. At the facility, solid and liquid wastes and ion exchange resin canisters obtained from the metro area and other metal platers, printed circuit manufacturers and metal finishing businesses will be processed to recover metals and metal precipi- tates for sale and reuse. Wastes will be transformed into solids to be disposed in approved landfills. This EAW is essentially a reissuance of an EAW prepared by the Minnesota Polllution Control Agency ilar facility ,proposed by the Metropolitan MRecovery fCorporatf on a io for northeast Minneapolis last year. The previous EAW was distributed for review in August, 1983 and considered by the Board on September 27, 1983. The Board approved a negative declaration (no FIS) on the proposal at that time. The new proposal differs from the original proposal because of one project change (with the new proposal, liquid organic wastes and organic sludges will be stored at the facility and shipped to appropriate disposal sites) and a change in the proposed location of the facility (the original project would have been located in northeast Minneapolis). An environmental assessment worksheet (EAW) was prepared for the proposal in accordance with Minnesota Rules Part '410.4300. The EAW and other pertinent materials have been reviewed in accordance with Minnesota Rules Part 4410.1700 to determine if the project has the potential for significant environmental effects• The findings and conclusions of that review are contained in this document. References are cited in brackets. I. TYPE, EXTENT AND REVERSIBILITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS A. Project Size and Cost The project will consist of the construction of a metals recovery and processing facility. Wastes from metal finishers (metal platers, printed circuit manufacturers, and other metal finishing businesses) primarily located in the Metro area will be treated and stored at the facility. The facility, a 60t 000 square foot building, will be constructed on four acres of an eight -acre site in Roseville at Walnut Street and Rose Place. The be utilized is located on the south side of RoseparcePlace,to one parcel easterly of Walnut Street. The site is located within one of fourteen areas which the Minnesota Waste Management Board (WMB) selected as a preferred area for plants processing hazardous chemical wastes. This site is designated only for chemical treatment plants or transfer/storage facilities.