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WASTE MA~AGEME~IT BOARD SITIIIG TIMETABLE Oisposal Facilities November, 1980. The Waste Management Board (WMB) notifies communities in search areas for hazardous waste disposal facilities. November, 1980 - May, 1981. Public meetings will be held in each Development Region to discuss and recommend siting criteria to the WMB. May, 1981.. The WMB must propose six or more candidate sites for commercial hazardous waste disposal facilities. May, 1981 - August, 1981. Additional meetings as well as hearings will be held in the Development Regions on the proposed candidate sites. August, 1981. The WMB will select six candidate sites in six different counties--one per county. Subsequently, the Governor will appoint a Local Project Review Committee from'each affected county to act as a communication link between the affected community and the involved state agencies to relay information and local concerns. Each Local Project Review Committee must select a temporary voting member to serve on the Waste Management Board Lo represent his or her communit¥'in the siting deliberations of the WMB~' January, 1982. The WMB will present two reports to the Legislative Commission on Waste Management, after consultation with the Local Project Review Com- mittees and after a public meeting in each affected county. One report will be on mitigation of local effects of a hazardous disposal facility, and will propose ways to reduce local impacts and compensate the host communities. The other report will be on hazardous waste management, and will contain a draft hazardous waste management plan and a proposed certificate of need for one or more disposal facilities. - May, 1982. The WMB will issue a certificate of need for hazardous waste disposal facilities that will specify the size and types of disposal facilities to be built at one or more of the candidate sites. - September, 1982. The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency will complete environmental impact statements on disposal facilities at each of the six candidate sites. - Spring, 1983. The WMB will select one or more of the sit. es for disposal facilities, after hearings in each county, discussions with affected local governments and others, and after consideration of the Pollution Control .Agency's environmental impact statements. Processing Facilities - June 1, 1981. The WMB will propose at least 9 sites to appear on a hazardous waste processing site inventory, including (1) three incineration sites, (2) three chemical processing sites, and (3) three transfer and storage sites. - November 1, 1981. The WMB will prepare a final inventory of processing sites.