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I. INTRODUCTION PURPOSE This document is a draft of a land disposal abatement report that serve, when adopted, as a guide to local 9overnmental units in devel- oping alternatives to landfills for disposing of solid waste. The M~nnesota Waste Management Act, passed by the Stat' Legislature in April 1980, requires the Metropolitan Councli to prepare a report by January 1, 1981, that identifies ways of dealing w~th solid waste other than by use of sanitary landfills. The basic methods include waste reduction (at the source of generation), waste separation (to recover recyclahles), waste processing (to reduce the amount of space wastes would occupy in landfills) and resource recovery (to recover energy or useful organic material). The land disposal abatement report, of which this ~s a draft, will be a planning tool for counties, cities and townships in the Metropolitan Area that are considering specific solid waste abatement programs. Under the 1980 Waste Management Act, the report ~s to be used by the seven metropolitan counties in developing land disposal abatement plans. The Metropolitan Council, in turn, reviews the proposals and amends its regional solid waste policy plan to include specific and quantifiable objectives for land disposal abatement. The counties must implement the Council's abatement plan, in part, through amend- ment of their solid waste master plans. Concurrent w~th thls process of land disposal abatement is a process, also required by the 1980 Waste Management Act, for the planning, sitin9 and operation of waste faci£itles to process and dispose of mixed municipal waste (refuse), hazardous waste and sewage s£udge residuals. Such facilities include landfills. To accomplish these tasks, the Legislature has assigned specific responsibilities to various state, regional and county levels of 9overnment- In regard, the land disposal abatement report can serve as a bas~s for discussing solid waste disposal alternatives during the county land- fill siting process--especially the relationship of future landfill needs to solid waste abatement programs. This draft of the land disposal abatement report contains descriptions of alternative strategies and their potential for reducing the need for new landfills. It also contalns proposed specific objectives and degrees of abatement that could possibly be achieved in the Reglon through implementation of these alternative strategieS. This report also contains recommendations on how the Region can best accomplish the speclfled abatement objectives, and a recommended schedule for implementing abatement programs.