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FALCON HEIGHTS CITY COUNCIL MINUTES _12_ February 23, 2005 Consideration of an ordinance re arding cleanup of clandestine dru labs (continued) (c) the appropriate enforcement division of the United States drug enforcement administration; and (d) other city, state and local authorities, such as the City Public Works Department, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the Minnesota Department of Health, and the Department of Natural Resources, that are known to have public and environmental protection responsibilities applicable to the situation. (4) Modification or removal of declaration. The city may modify or remove the declaration of public health nuisance after the city receives documentation from acity-approved environmental hazard testing and cleaning firm stating that the suspected health and safety risks, including those to neighbors and potential occupants, either do not exist or have been sufficiently abated or corrected to justify amendment or removal of the declaration. 8-5.08. Site Owner's Responsibility to Act. (1) Within 10 business days after the abatement order is mailed to the site owner, the owner must accomplish the following; (a) provide the city, in writing, with: 1) confirmation that all persons and their pets have vacated the site; • 2) the names of all children who the owner believes were residing at the site during the time period the clandestine drug lab is suspected to have been at the site; and 3) confirmation that the site will remain vacated and secured until the public health nuisance is completely abated, as required by this chapter. (b) contract with one or more city-approved environmental hazard testing and cleaning firms to conduct the following work in accordance with the most current state guidelines: 8-5.07. Inspection and Declaration of Nuisance. 1) a detailed on-site assessment of contamination at the site, including the personal property in the site; 2) soil testing of the site and testing of all property and soil in proximity to the site which the environmental hazard testing and cleaning firm determines may have been affected by the conditions found at the site; 3) a complete clean-up of the site (including the clean-up or removal of plumbing, ventilation systems, fixtures and contaminated soil) or a demolition of the structures on the site and complete clean- up of the demolished site; 4) a complete clean-up, or disposal at an approved dump site, of all personal property in the site that is found to have been affected by the conditions at the site; 5) a complete clean-up of all property and soil in proximity to the site that is found to have been affected by the conditions at the site; and 6) remediation testing and follow-up testing, including testing of the ventilation system and plumbing, to determine that all health risks are sufficiently reduced to allow safe human occupancy and use of the site, use of the personal property in it, and use of all property and soil in proximity to the site. . (c) provide the city with the identity of the testing and cleaning firm with which the owner has contracted for abatement of the public health nuisance as required above; and ~a