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- 43 - Sec. 473.833, Subd. 3. Each metropolitan county shall establish a site selection authority. By June 1, 1983, each site selection authority shall select specific sites within the county from the Council's disposal site inventory, in accordance with the proce- dures established by the Council under Section 473.149, Subdivi- sion 2e, and in a number equal to that required by the Council to be acquired by the county. Each site selection authority shall be composed of the county board, plus one member appointed by the governing body of each city or town within the county containing a site in the Councils' disposal site inventory or the majority of the land containing within such a site. If the number of members on the site selection authority who reside in a city or town contain all or part of a site or buffer area is equal to or greater than the number of members who do not, the chairman of the county board shall appoint to the authority an additional member or members, residing within the county but not within a city or town containing all or part of a site or buffer area, sufficient to assure a majority of one on the authority of members residing in cities and towns not containing all or any part of a site of buffer area. The chairman of the county board shall be the chairman of the site selection authority. If a site selection authority, has not selected the reauisite number of sites in accordance with the Council's standards, criteria, and procedures by June 1, 1983, the Council shall make the selection. Planning Step Number 7: County Acauisition of Disposal Sites Sec. 473.833, Subd. 4. In order to prevent the development of conflicting land uses at and around future solid waste disposal facility sites, the Council shall provide for the acquisition by a metropolitan county of property and rights in property at and around each solid waste disposal site selected pursuant to Sub- division 3. Each site scheduled for development as a facility through the year 1990 shall be acquired in fee. Development rights shall be acquired for each site scheduled for development as a facility after the year 1990 through the year 2000. Develop- ment rights shall be acquired in a buffer area surrounding and at least equal to the area of each site scheduled for development as a facility through the year 2000. The owner of any property'for which development rights are to be or have been acquired pursuant to this subdivision may elect by written notice at any time up to 90 days following the issuance of a permit by the agency for a facility to have the county acquire fee title to the property. Fee title shall be acquired by counties for buffer areas only at the election of the owner of the fee.