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2 formed by the metropolitan Council and the Twin Cities Association of Metal Finishers in April of 1982, which included MPCA staff and staff of the Waste Management Board and which studied the feasibility of a central facility to treat metal waste generated in the metro area. As of 8/30/83, 20 out of a possible total of 96 Zarin Cities metal finishers and electroplaters are committed to utilizing the proposed central facility. In the next few weeks, additional metal waste generators may commit to the facility in re- sponse to the notice of violation sent by the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission (MWCC), requiring 40 of these shops to either have committed to the proposed central facility or to installing their own pretreatment facilities. The facility will be run as a Minnesota corporation with participating metal waste generators owning stock and having voting rights and liability for the facility operation. Under the new EQB rules adopted on September 28, 1983, the MPCA must prepare an EAW and make the final decision on the need for an EIS for projects for which the MPCA is the Responsible Governmental Unit (RGU), when the project exceeds the mandatory EAW preparation thresholds listed at 6 MCAR 93.038. The EAW for this project was prepared in accordance with 6 MCAR $3.038.0.2 which requires the "CA to prepare an EAW to assess the environmental impacts of new hazardous waste proces- sing facilities which sell processing services to generators other than the owner and operator of a facility, of 1,000 or more kilograms per monL;h capacity. A minimum amount of approximately 60,000 kilograms of hazardous waste per month has now been committed by "take or pay" contracts to be processed by the facility. The U.W for the proposal was prepared and distributed for comment on August 1, 1983. During the course of the 30-day comment period, the Agency staff received comments on the project from the Minnesota Historical Society, the Metropolitan