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I I I I I I I I I I I' I I I I I I I -3- In.April, 1982 the Board selected eight preferred areas for hazardous waste processing facilities in eight communities out- side the Twin Cities Metro area: Willmar, Crookston, Fergus Falls, Rochester, St. Cloud, Duluth, Owatonna and Mankato. In addition to the Board's acceptance of the Min~eapolis proposal, it also reduced the size of many of the.areas from that originally proposed, based on information and a variety of local. concerns identified during the Board's public hearing process. Only the areas in Forest Lake, Rosemount and Roseville were not reduced by the Board.. If hazardous waste processing facilities are established within preferred areas, they would likely handle such chemicals and materials as solvents, acids, inks, cyanides, oils and greases and heavy metal wastes. In its~draft Hazardous Waste Management ~eport,-releaSed August 3, the'.Board'estimates appr~xi~atelY'i.74,080 ~ons of hazardOus wastes are generated in Minnesota each year, and that approximately 80 percent of the total originates in the seven-county Twin Cities Metro area. Minnesota's hazardous wastes are generated by chemical industries, 'rubber and plastics firms, metal fabricators, printing firms, platers and circuit board manufacturers, and a wide range of other industries. · The Board has identified hazardous waste reduction and. treatment as preferred to land-disposal, and sees the establishment of new treatment facilities as necessary in reducing the state's dependence on the land-disposal of hazardous wastes.. .