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- 2 - will be accepted until DeCember 1, 1980, on any aspect of the land disposal abatement report or the entire land disposal abatement planning process. RELATIONSHIP TO METROPOLITAN COUNCIL'S SOLID WASTE POLICY PLAN To encourage a comprehensive approach to solid waste management planning in the Region, the first objective of the Metropolitan Council's solid waste policy plan (adopted in February 1979, as required by the 1976 Metropolitan Solid Waste Act) was to establish an order of preference for solid waste management practices that will achieve environmentally safe disposal, conserve energy and material resources, and minimize total costs. Policy 1 in the plan states: "The Metropolitan Council shall consider waste reduction practices as having the greatest benefit to improved solid waste management, followed, in order of preference, by source separation, waste processing and utilization, and land disposal." It is inevitable that new landfills will have to be sited and constructed in the Region to safely dispose of the wastes generated. However, the Council's policy plan and the new 1980 Waste Management Act state that landfilling should be considered only after it has been determined that other solid waste management practices are not feasible. PROCESS FOR LAND DISPOSAL ABATEMENT PLANNING The 1980 State Waste Management.Act establishes a schedule for land disposal abatement planning in the Metropolitan Area (see Appendix for statut~ory citations). A summary of the schedule is listed below: Completion Date Planning Step Jan. 1, 1981 1. Identification by the Metropolitan Council of the _various potentials of alternatives to reduce the need for new landfills. April 1, 1982 2. Proposals by each county on their specific disposal alternative plans. Jan. 1, 1983 3. Amendment of the Metropolitan Council solid waste policy plan to include specific objectives for abating land disposal of solid waste based on standards for county waste reduction, source separation and resource recovery programs and activities. Amendment of the Council's policy plan will also include a reduced estimate of the added landfill capacity needs based on the abatement objectives. June 1, 1983 Revision of county master plans to include a land disposal abatement element to implement the Council's land disposal abatement plan.