Agenda - Council - 09/13/1982 - Special

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I I I I I I Agenda Item III METROPOLITAN COUNCIL Suite 300 Metro Square Building, St. Paul, Minnesota 5510]. MEMORANDUM August 25, 1982 TO: Metropolitan Waste Management Advisory Committee FROM: Environmental Planning (Carl Michaud) SUBJECT: Background Report to Compensation and Miti'gation Report Under the Waste Management Act, the Council is required to prepare a report to the Legislative Commission on Waste Management ~LCWM) on methods of mitiqating and compensating for the local risks, costs and other adverse effects of solid waste disposal facilities. In addition, the report is to identify ways of financing the mitigation and compensation measures. The final report was due this month, but will be late because of delays in receiving the county sanitary landfill inventories and in determining the intrinsic suitability of the Council's sludge ash landfill sites. Representatives from the cities and towns with landfill sites will be added to the Metropolitan Waste Management Advisory Committee to assist the Council in preparing this report. The purpose of this background report is two-fold. First, although the statutorily mandated deadline of August 15, 1982, for the completed report cannot be met, this background report provides evidence to the LCWM that the Council has made a good faith effort to meet the deadline. Second, the background report provides information that will assist the expanded advisory committee in making recommendations to the LCWM. The body of the report lists the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of landfills on the host community and outlines possible methods of reducing those impacts. The report also identifies possible methods of compensating individuals and the local community for these impacts. Methods of financing mitigation and compensation techniques are also discussed. SA5541