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1 10/19/82 <br />Metro phone: MINNESOTA Toll free: <br />(612) 536-0816 WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD 1-800-652-9747 <br />7323 58th Avenue North <br />Crystal, Minnesota 55428 <br />"The Inventory of Preferred Areas for <br />Hazardous Waste Processing Facilities" <br />On April 22, 1982 the Waste Management Board announced its first "Inventory <br />of Preferred Areas" for hazardous waste processing facilities. The inventory <br />includes eight areas in or near eight Minnesota communities outside the Twin <br />Cities Metropolitan Area. In these areas the Board will encourage private <br />developers to select sites and establish facilities for the incineration, <br />treatment or temporary storage of hazardous wastes. <br />On the same date, the Board voted to continue the search for preferred areas <br />in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Because the Metro Area generates an <br />estimated two-thirds of the state's hazardous wastes, the Board expressed <br />concern that an insufficient number of areas had been identified in the Metro <br />Area during the original search. <br />The Law <br />Minnesota Statute 115A, called the Waste Management Act of 1980, sets up proce- <br />dures for managing hazardous wastes in the state. Among other things, the <br />Act created the Waste Management Board. The Board consists of eight part- <br />time citizen members appointed by the Governor to four-year terms, one from <br />each of Minnesota's Congressional Districts,and a full-time chairperson, also <br />appointed by the Governor. <br />The Board is responsible for three main activities involving hazardous wastes: <br />- Development of a hazardous waste management plan <br />Development of an inventory of preferred areas for hazardous waste <br />processing facilities <br />- Siting of at least one hazardous waste disposal facility (1982 amendments <br />to the Act allow the Board to select either a land -disposal or retriev- <br />able storage facility) <br />The Minnesota Legislature, in the Waste Management Act, clearly emphasized <br />the importance of finding alternatives to the land disposal of hazardous wastes. <br />The Board also has frequently expressed its support of efforts to minimize <br />the amount of hazardous wastes requiring disposal. One of the main ways to <br />reduce the amount of hazardous wastes requiring disposal is to process, or <br />treat, those wastes. <br />To encourage treatment of hazardous wastes,the Board is required to identify <br />