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I I I I I I I I I I I I I i I I I I 'FROM: The Minnesota Waste Management Board 7323 - 58th Avenue North, Crystal, MN CONTACT: 55428 Patrick Hirigoyen (612) 536-0816 (Outstate 1-800-652-9747) MINNESOTA WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD SELECTS "PREFERRED AREAS" FOR HAZARDOUS WASTE PROCESSING FACILITIES IN TWIN CITIES METRO AREA Thirteen different areas in twelve Twin Cities Metropolitan- area communities--including two in St. Paul and large tracts of ' industrially zoned land in Minneapolis--have been selected by the Minnesota Waste Management Board as "preferred areas" for .hazardous waste processing facilities, where the Board will encourage private developers to obtain sites for such facilities as chemical waste treatment plant.s, storage facilities and incinerators. In a meeting today at the State Office Building in St.'Paul,. the Board voted to select--with some reductions in the .size Of several areas--areas proposed.earlier"in St. Paul,.C0ttage Grove.,'-. Rosemount, Inver Grove Heights, Roseville, Shakopee,-FridleY, Plymouth,. Lakeville, Forest Lake, and Ramsey. In addition, the Board accepted a proposal bY the City of Minneapolis under which all industrially-zoned areas in which th~ city's "performance standards" would permit hazardous waste proces- sing facilities' will be considered "preferred areas." · Of the 16 areas originally proposed by the Board as preferred areas in the Twin cities Metro a~ea in December, 1982, only an area in Hastings was eliminated. The Board cited the area's.soi~ and aquifer conditions and relatively poor transportation access for.its decision. imore) :