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April 28, 1988 Page Five "Except as provided in this subdivision, a metropolitan county may acquire a site and buffer area for a solid waste disposal facility anywhere within the county without complying with local ordinances if the action is approved by the council as being taken pursuant to the policy plan and the development schedule adopted under Section 473.149, subd. 2(e) and the provisions of Section 473.833, and the county may establish an operator contract for the establishment or operation of a disposal facility at the site without complying with local ordinances, if the council certifies need under Section 473.823, subd. 6. No local government unit shall prevent the establishment or operation of any solid waste facility in accordance with the council's decision under section 473.823, subdivision 5, except that, with the approval of the council, the local government unit may impose reasonable conditions respecting the construction, inspection, monitoring and maintenance of a facility." While the Draft EID does mention the fact that Site P is currently in Anoka County's landfill inventory, see pages 2-14 to 2-20, it contains absolutely no mention of the above-noted statutes which preclude the city's ability to expand the airport if that expansion jeopardizes the use of Site P as a future landfill site. Furthermore, in view of these statutes, the statement "any expansion or new landfill would be prohibited by the airport zoning ordinance" at page 2-20 of the document is inaccurate. 5. The Draft EID should be revised to reflect the recent rendum invalidating Ramsey's airport safety zoning ordinance. The Draft EID reports at page 2-19, that the airport safety zoning ordinance adopted by the City of Ramsey in 1987 was subject to a referendum. On April 19, after the Draft EID was prepared, the citizens of Ramsey, in a referendum, repealed this ordinance. The document should be supplemented to discuss the impact of the repeal of this ordinance on the project.