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RESOLUTION NO. 4119 <br /> CITY OF MOUNDS VIEW <br /> COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br /> STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> RESOLUTION URGING CONGRESSIONAL RELIEF <br /> FROM APPLICATION OF SUPERFUND STATUTE <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Mounds View, Minnesota, strongly <br /> supports the general concept of the Superfund statute <br /> (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability <br /> Act) which makes parties who have created, transported, managed <br /> or disposed of hazardous waste liable for the cost of hazardous <br /> waste cleanup; and <br /> WHEREAS, under the Superfund statute, hazardous waste <br /> site polluters acquire the right to sue fellow polluters to share <br /> the cleanup expense; and <br /> WHEREAS, polluters have discovered a means of <br /> attempting to shift the costs of hazardous waste site cleanup to <br /> taxpayers of the nation by suing only governments for their <br /> volume of municipal solid waste placed in landfills, thereby <br /> causing enormous legal costs and potentially unfair economic <br /> effects on city governments throughout the nation; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Superfund statute does not and should not <br /> focus on municipal solid waste; and <br /> WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Policy recently <br /> adopted an Interim Municipal Settlement Policy that it would not <br /> routinely pursue local governments under Superfund, acknowledging' <br /> that only a tiny fraction of municipal solid waste may be toxic; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS, he policy does nothh gstoppoJ-1-u erg fpm <br /> launching expensive and often frivolous lawsuits against city <br /> governments, many of whom have only arranged for or -licensed the <br /> pickup and hauling of municipal solid waste from within their <br /> respective borders; and <br /> WHEREAS, such lawsuits are beginning to yield results <br /> whereby the nation's cities, school districts, very small <br /> businesses and potentially citizens are prospects to be sued by <br /> polluters; and <br /> WHEREAS, the City of Mounds View has recently been <br /> targeted by polluters under the Superfund statute as a__ <br /> potentially responsible party; and <br />