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- 40 - SANITARY AND DEMOLITION LANDFILL SITING PROCESS Planning Step Number 1: Metropolitan Council Report on Additional Landfill Needs Sec. 473.149, Subd. 2. By July 1, 1980, the Council shall adopt by resolution an estimate of the added solid waste disposal capacity needed in appropriate sectors of the Metropolitan Area in annual increments through the year 1990 and thereafter in five- year increments through the year 2000. The Council's estimate shall be based upon existing and projected solid waste generation rates without regard to potential waste reduction, separation, and recovery activity except that provided by services and facilities in operation or under construction. Planning Step Number 2: Landfill Sites Counties' Inventpries of Proposed Sec. 473.803, Subd. la. By June 1, 1981, each county shall adopt, by resolution of its governing body, an inventory of four proposed sites in the county suitable for mixed municipal solid waste disposal facilities and one proposed site in the county suitable for the disposal of demolition debris and shall submit the inventory to the Council for approval or disapproval. The Council shall evaluate and approve or disapprove each proposed site in accordance with the standard set out in this subdi- vision. Except as otherwise provided in this subdivision, each site shall satisfy the standards and criteria in federal and state regulations and the Council's policy plan for solid waste management. In proposing the approving sites for the inventory, the counties and the Council shall prefer land which is capable of being returned to its existing use or the use anticipated in a plan of a metropolitan agency, county or local unit of government use after closure of a disposal facility. Each site shall contain no less than 80 acres and no more than 250 acres. Each proposed site shall be surrounded by a buffer area at least eaual to the area of the site. No site shall be proposed by the c~nty or approved by the Council unless the agency certifies its intrinsic suitability for the use intended, based on preliminary environmental analysis and on-site surveys and investigations conducted by the county or agency. Notwithstanding any plan, charter provision, law, ordinance, regulation, or other require- ment of any state agency or political subdivision, no land shall be excluded from consideration for inclusion in the inventory except land determined by the agency to be intrinsically unsuit- able. The Council shall evaluate each site with respect to local land-use and land use controls, the protection of agriculture and natural resources, existing and future development patterns, transportation facilities and other services and facilities appropriate to land disposal facilities, the quality of other potential sites, and patterns of generation of solid waste. The Council shall notify a county of any site proposed by the county 60 days to propose an alternative site. If the countv fails to propose an alternative acceptable to the Council in the time allowed, the Council shall propose a site acceptable to it for