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- 38 - APPENDIX EXCERPTS FROM THE 1980 WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT ARTICLE X SOLID WASTE AND SEWAGE SLUDGE MANAGEMENT, METROPOLITAN AREA INTRODUCTION The 1980 Waste Management Act, signed into law April 14, 1980, deals with hazardous waste, municipal solid waste and sewage sludge dis- posal. Only those parts of Article X that deal with the planning process of land disposal abatement and sanitary landfill siting in the Metropolitan Area are reprinted here, in the order the planning steps are to take place. Complete copies of the 1980 Waste Management Act are available from: Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives, Room 211 State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota 55155; telephone: 296-2314. A summary of the 1980 Waste Management Act is available from: Legislative Commission on Waste Management, B-.46 State Capitol, St. Paul, Minnesota 55155; telephone: 297-3604. LAND DISPOSAL ABATEMENT PLANNING Planning Step Number 1: Metropolitan Council Abatement Report Sec. 473.149, Subd. 2a. By January 1, 1981, the Council shall prepare and submit a report to metropolitan counties on poten- tials for abating the need for and practice of land disposal of mixed municipal solid waste in the Metropolitan Area, for use by the counties in developing land disposal abatement plans pursuant to Section 473.803, Subdivision lb. The report shall contain an analysis of abatement achievable through waste reduction, separa- tion, waste processing, and resource recovery. The report shall contain specific and quantifiable alternative abatement objectives and degrees of abatement, along with solid waste management methods and technologies, private and government actions, facilities and services, development schedules, revenue- raising measures, and levels of public and private expenditure and effort necessary to the achievement of those alternative objectives and degrees of abatement. The report shall recommend priorities and objectives for abating, immediately and over specified time periods, the disposal of mixed municipal solid waste in the Metropolitan Area. During the preparation of the report, the Council shall encourage public debate and discussion of the issues relating to land disposal abatement and shall hold a public meeting on the issues in each metropolitan county.