HomeMy WebLinkAbout8.a. Set Public Hearing - Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility IUPCITY OF ROSEMOUNT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: January 7, 1992
AGENDA ITEM: Set Public Hearing: MN Industrial
AGENDA SECTION:
Containment Facility (MICF) Interim Use Permit
NEW BUSINESS
PREPARED BY:
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ATTACHMENTS: Project Overview ; Location Map;
Hearing Notice; Mailing List, DC License.�(;�1�
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City staff and Consultants have reviewed the draft permit
released by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and have
drafted an Interim Use Permit (IUP)Agreement for the proposed
236 acre Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility. This
facility will be an industrial solid waste disposal facility for
the disposal of non -hazardous wastes. Ultimate design of the
facility consists of 10 self contained disposal cells. The
proposed IUP is for a term of 5 years and is for only the first
three containment cells.
The Planning Commission initially reviewed the proposed IUP at
their December 10, 1991 Regular Meeting and will be making a
recommendation to the City Council regarding the IUP Agreement
at their January 14 Regular Meeting:
The notice period for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency-
(PCA) permit ended December 16, 1991. PCA staff indicated that
one comment letter was submitted on the draft permit. The final
permit and the staff response to the comment letter have been
forwarded to the PCA Director's office. PCA staff anticipates
that the permit will be administratively approved by the
Director.' If, however, the Director decides to bring the permit
to the full 'PCA 'Board for approval, the permit will be
considered at their regular monthly meeting on January 27, 1992.
The Dakota County license was approved by the County Board on
December 17, 1991 subject to the City's approval of the rezoning
and IUP.
I. INTRODUCTION
This Operational Plan for the Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility
(MICF) is one of five volumes being prepared as part of the final permit applica-
tion to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), Dakota County and
the City of Rosemount. The other four volumes cover Introduction, Overview
and Facility Design (Volume I), Environmental Impact Statement (Volume II
prepared by the Metropolitan Council), Hydrogeologic Report (Volume III)
and Closure, Post -Closure and Contingency Action Plan (Volume V).
This Operational Plan was prepared through a collaborative effort among
Hansen, Allen and Luce (Midvale, Utah), Environmental Engineering and
Management Limited (Bloomington, Minnesota) and USPCI, Inc. (Houston,
Texas).
This volume is divided into fourteen sections. Section II provides a general over-
view of the project. Section III provides a general overview of the operation of
the facility. Section IV addresses the types of wastes that can be accepted at the
facility. Section V summarizes the waste acceptance procedures that will be
employed at the facility and summarizes the administrative controls (both
regulatory and USPCI, Inc. internal) in place to evaluate waste before shipment
to the facility.
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INTRODUCTION
Sections VI through VIII address operation plans including the function and use
of the container management building, the sequence of the cell construction and
typical waste placement operations within a cell.
Section IX describes the operation of the leachate collection system and storage
tanks. The operation of the stormwater management plan over the planned
lifetime of the MICF is described in Section X. The remaining Sections, XI, XII,
XIII and XIV, describe general inspection and maintenance, reports and record
keeping, personnel training and the facility safety plan.
All of these materials are available for review at the
Planning Department. Please contact Donna Quintus at
322-2051 if you would like to review these materials.
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II. PROJECT OVERVIEW
A. Background
USPCI, Inc. (hereafter referred to as USPCI or the Company) is a subsidiary
of Union Pacific Corporation and maintains corporate headquarters in
Houston, Texas. USPCI operates waste recycling, treatment, storage and dis-
posal operations in various locations across the United States and currently
operates other waste containment cells similar in design to those being
proposed for this project. Such cells have been used for disposal of both haz-
ardous and non -hazardous waste. The cells proposed in this project will be
permitted for disposal of non -hazardous waste.
USPCI proposes to locate and operate a waste containment facility in
Rosemount, Minnesota (see Figure IV -1). The MICF is planned and
designed specifically to manage non -hazardous industrial waste. The MICF
will serve many of the waste management needs of industries in the
Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area. Currently the majority of these
wastes are either disposed of at on-site landfills operated by the waste gener-
ator or disposed of with household garbage at mixed municipal solid waste
if landfills. The Company considers the MICF's waste acceptance procedures,
facility design and mode of operations a significant improvement over the
existing system of industrial waste disposal.
The MICF employs five basic factors that work together to improve manage-
ment of industrial wastes. These factors are:
• constructing the facility on a site identified by local government as
potentially suitable for waste management facilities,
° removing the industrial waste from the acidic conditions found in
municipal landfills by separating these wastes from household gar-
bage,
• containing the waste in a facility designed and constructed with two
synthetic liners, one clay liner and two leachate collection systems,
° sizing the containment cells to be operated for relatively short
periods of time, then closing and capping each cell to reduce future
leachate generation and
° maintaining the major facility units, including the capped contain-
ment cells and leachate collection system, even after the facility has
ceased accepting waste.
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Figure IV -1
Location of Proposed Site
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
These five basic operating factors ensure that the MICF will serve as an
improvement over the existing waste management system and will safely
handle these wastes both now and in the future.
B. General Design and Operations
Of the 236 acres on the site, about 60 acres will be occupied by the contain-
ment cells. Approximately 40 acres will be used for the following: an ad-
ministrative building, a container management building, dock area, rail
siding, leachate storage tanks, internal roads and parking areas. The ad-
ministrative building will house offices, a waste -testing laboratory and per-
sonnel facilities. The container management building will be located near
the administrative building (see Figure N-2). it is anticipated that the
remaining 136 acres will remain as buffer area.
The facility will eventually consist of ten, 6 -acre containment cells, each with
an overall capacity of approximately 250,000 cubic yards. The approximate
waste receiving rate will be 80,000 cubic yards per year, transported by
twenty to twenty-five trucks per day. Some waste may be transported to the
facility by rail. At this rate, the MICF is projected to operate over a period
of approximately thirty years. Each cell will operate for about three to five
years. Generally only one cell will be actively receiving waste at any one
time. However, as a cell nears its capacity, another will be constructed.
During these periods of time, two cells will be open. The containment cells
will be underlain by two synthetic liner systems and two leachate collection
systems. A third liner made up of two feet of compacted clay will underlie
the two synthetic liner and leachate collection systems at the floor of the cell.
A "Claymax" S (or equal) barrier will extend up the sides of the cells.
The leachate generated in the cells will be collected and transferred to the
leachate storage tanks. The leachate in the tanks will be tested before dis-
charge to a wastewater treatment plant. If the leachate testing shows the
leachate does not meet discharge standards, the leachate will be pretreated
by a mobile treatment unit, pretreated through in -tank treatment or
transported off site to an appropriate treatment facility.
The MICF will accept only wastes classified as non -hazardous industrial
wastes by federal, state and local regulations. Under current regulations,
non -hazardous industrial wastes are being disposed of at existing municipal
waste landfills. The existing regulatory system and the MICF Waste
Acceptance Plan will work to ensure that only acceptable non -hazardous
industrial wastes are delivered and accepted for management at the MICF.
A summary of these procedures include:
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
° waste testing by the potential waste customer consistent with federal,
state and local regulations to determine waste classification,
° predelivery agreements between the potential customer and the,
MICF,
• waste deliveries by the potential customer or waste transporters and
• waste inspection, sampling and waste receipt analysis at the MICF to
ensure that the waste received is what was anticipated by showing con-
sistency with both the waste shipping papers and with the waste test-
ing that was completed by the customer.
Only after a waste is evaluated and certified by the customer to be non -haz-
ardous, industrial waste will it be approved for acceptance of the facility. The
Company has chosen to adopt these stringent waste acceptance procedures
to ensure that only permitted wastes are accepted for containment at the
MICE. When a cell has reached its designed capacity it will be capped with
high density polyethylene (HDPE) liner material, a drainage net and filter
fabric, graded with topsoil and seeded to retard erosion.
C. MICF Site Selection
The MICF site is located in the Pine Bend Industrial Area of Rosemount.
The site has been identified as a potential site for waste management
facilities and has been the subject of technical evaluations and public hear-
ings to determine its suitability for waste management facilities.
The site was one of five identified as displaying geological, social and land
use characteristics potentially suitable for land disposal facilities as part of
Dakota County's landfill site selection responsibilities, required by the
Minnesota Waste Management Act of 1980. Further, the site was found to
be "intrinsically suitable" for land disposal Facilities by the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and found to be consistent with the Solid
Waste Management Development Guide/Policy Plan of the Metropolitan
Council, the regional planning agency for the seven county metro area.
In addition to the environmental protection factors required by state,
regional and local governments, the Company believes the site offers supe-
rior characteristics for development of a waste management facility. These
characteristics include zoning, topography, low-density development in the
site vicinity, compatible surrounding land uses, adequate transportation
facilities and proximity to wastewater treatment facilities. USPCI analyzed
all potential landfill sites identified by the seven metropolitan counties as
potential sites for an industrial waste containment facility before proposing
to develop a facility at the Rosemount site.
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D. Environmental Features
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PROJECT OVERVIEW
The site is characterized by a rolling topography ranging in elevation from
820 feet mean sea level (MSL) in the southwest comer to 907 feet MSL near
the center of the site. The site lies in the Vermillion River Watershed. Two
small areas, defined as wetlands, exist on the site which contain water only
during spring snowmelt or unusually heavy precipitation events. Storrawater
flows either to natural depressions scattered on the site or to these wetlands
located in the southwestern corner of the site. These wetlands are not
located within the active portion of the facility and will not be altered or
dredged by facility development. The nearest open water body is the
Mississippi River, approximately 3,000 feet to the north of the site.
E. Existing Land Use and Zoning
The existing land use in the site vicinity consists of a mixture of heavy in-
dustrial and agricultural use and a few residential housing units. The site is
adjacent to the Pine Bend Industrial Area of Rosemount. Land use adjacent
to the MICF site includes railroad right-of-way, highway right-of-way, the
Rosemount wastewater treatment plant, two single-family residences, a golf
course and agricultural lands. The existing land use on the MICF site con-
sists of rolling, open fields with scattered woodlots. The site has been used
for pasture or grazing as its varying topography makes it undesirable for
more intensive agricultural uses.
Approximately two-thirds of the site is zoned as a Waste Management
District and one-third is zoned as an Agricultural District by the City of
Rosemount. Zoning adjacent to the site on the west, northwest and north
consists of General Industrial Districts. Agricultural Districts are adjacent to
the south and east.
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Public Notice
INTERIM USE PERMIT APPLICATION
Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility
(South Side of Courthouse Blvd.)
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the City Council of the City of Rosemount will hold a public
hearing on Tuesday, January 21, 1992 in the Council Chambers of the City Hall, 2875 145th
Street West, beginning at 8:00 p.m., or as soon thereafter as possible. The public hearing
pertains to the following described property:
A tract of land lying in Sections 19, 20 and 29, Township 115N, Range 18W, all in the City of
Rosemount, Dakota County, Minnesota, commencing at the SW corner of the East 1/2 of the
Southeast 1/4 of said Section 19; thence east and southeasterly along the centerline of County Road
38 to its intersection with the North and South Quarter Section Line of Section 29; thence north
along said North and South Quarter Section Line of Section 29 and the North and South Quarter
Section Line of Section 20 to the southwesterly right-of-way line of State Trunk Highway 55; thence
northwesterly along the southwesterly right-of-way line of said Highway 55 to its intersection with
the centerline of the Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company right-of-way; thence
southwesterly along the centerline of said right-of-way to its intersection with the west line of the
East 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 19; thence south along said west line to the point of
commencement.
The property in question is owned by USPCI, Inc. and is located on the south side of
Courthouse Boulevard (STH 55) east of US Highway 52 and north of County Road 38. The
proposed facility is referred to as the Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility.
The purpose of the hearing is to consider an Interim Use Permit Application for USPCI,
Inc. to allow the construction and operation of an industrial solid waste land disposal facility
at this location for the disposal of non -hazardous industrial waste.
Persons wishing to speak on this issue are invited to attend this meeting on Tuesday.
January 21, 1992 at 8.00 p.m.
Dated this 7th day of January, 1992.
Susan M. Walsh, City Clerk
City of Rosemount
Dakota County, Minnesota
Minnesota Industrial Containment Facility (USPCi)
INTERIM USE PERMIT APPLICATION
MAILING LIST
1.
Koch Refining Company
34-01900-010-02
P.O. Box 2256
34-01900-010-06
Wichita, KS 67201
34-01900-010-10
34-01900-010-62
34-01900-010-80
2.
Chicago & NW Trans Co
34-01900-010-50
1 N WSTN CTR
34-01900-010-82
Chicago, IL 60606
34-02000-010-27
34-02000-010-75
3.
Paul J. Nieland
34-01900-010-52
13250 Clayton Avenue E
Rosemount, MN 55068
4.
Metro Waste Control Commission
34-01900-010-86
Capitol Square Building
230 E Fifth Street
St. Paul, MN 55101
5.
Orrin Kirschbaum
34-02000-010-01
13220 Doyle Path
34-02000-010-11
Rosemount, MN 55068
6.
Joseph M. & Julie A. Simones
34-02000-010-08
13273 Pine Bend Trail
Rosemount, Mn 55068
7.
Pine Bend Development Co.
34-02000-010-13
% Melvin G. Astleford
34-02000-010-25
1200 Highway 13 West
34-02000-010-28
Burnsville, MN 55337
34-02000-010-39
34-02000-010-82
34-02900-010-01
34-02900-010-20
34-02900-010-25
34-02900-010-35
34-03000-010-01
34-03000-010-19
8.
USPCI, Inc.
34-02000-010-33
Suite 500
34-02000-010-50
515 West Greens Road
Houston, TX 77067-4524
9.
Beverly K. Aspenson
34-02000-010-35
150 10th Avenue North
34-02000-010-38
South St. Paul, MN 55075
10.
Ninth Street Prop., Inc.
34-02000-010-37
One Commerce Green
515 W Greens - Suite 500
Houston, TX 77067
11.
D. W. Severson
34-02000-010-77
3389 140th Street East
Rosemount, Mn 55068
12.
James H. Kromschroeder
34-02000-010-86
13625 Courthouse Blvd - RR 2
Rosemount, Mn 55068
13. Masahiro & Brenda Sugii
13701 Courthouse Blvd
Rosemount, Mn 55068
14. Rich T. Burger
M. G. Astleford
1200 Highway 13 West
Burnsville, MN 55337
15. Calvin V. & Eleanor C. Twining
5480 142nd Street East
Rosemount, Mn 55068
16. Dale B. & Betty L Agre
14175 Eilers Path
Rosemount, MN 55068
17. Raymond A. & Rosella Rahn
3855 145th Street East
Rosemount, MN 55068
18. Marlin W. & Joann Rechtzigel
14727 Clayton Avenue East
Rosemount, MN 55068
19. Solberg Construction Co.
13245 Clayton Avenue
Rosemount, MN 55068
20. Spectro Alloys Corp.
13220 Doyle Path - Box 10
Rosemount, MN 55068
21. Holienback & Nelson, Inc.
7700 Wentworth Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55423
22. Eagle Sanitation, Inc.
Box 228
Newport, MN 55055
23. Cary Perket
USPCI
Suite 210
14450 South Robert Trail
Rosemount, MN 55068
34-02000-010-88
34-02900-010-10
34-02900-010-11
34-02900-010-15
34-03000-010-09
34-03000-010-25
34-03000-010-30
34-03000-011-35
34-03000-012-35
34-03000-010-40
34-33400-010-01
34-33400-020-01
34-33400-030-01
34-33400-040-01
34-34000-040-02
34-34000-050-02
34-33400-050-01
34-33400-060-01
34-33400-070-01
34-33400-080-01
34-33400-010-02
34-33400-020-02
34-33400-030-02
APPLICANT
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
DATE_ December 17 1991 RESOLUTION NO. 91-994
:viotion by Commissioner MaherSeconded by Commissioner Loeding
WHEREAS, United States Pollution Control, Inca (USPCI), has submitted to
the Public Health Department a license application for a proposed
industrial waste disposal facility as required by County ordinance No. 110,
Solid Waste Management, and
WHEREAS, staff have reviewed this license application, and find it to be
acceptable with the inclusion of the conditions specified below.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, That the Dakota County Board of
Commissioners hereby issues a license for an industrial waste disposal
facility classified as a Type A special waste facility (greater than 20,000
tons per year), to United States Pollution Control, Inc.,.for the Minnesota
Industrial Containment Facility (MICF), effective through December 3 1 r
1992, subject to compliance with all applicable federal, state and local
standards and rules, and subject to the conditions specified below:
Washes Acceptance Plan (Qanditions
The MICF must obtain and keep on file reports of all waste analyses
that are performed on any waste streams accepted for disposal.
Any waste streams with a concentration of 10 percent or greater of the
organic compounds lasted in Minnesota Hazardous Waste Rules, Chapter
--7045.0135, subpart 2, A. through E., are not acceptable for disposal.
All incoming waste loads must be checked at the gate or scale area for
radioactivity. Any waste which exhibits more than 0.2 mrems per hour
or 1,000 counts per minute must be held for inspection and review by
the Department.
YES NO
Harris X Harris
Maher X Maher
Chapdolaiue X Chapdelaine
Loading X I..00ding
Turner X Turner
State of Minnesota;
County of Dakota
I. Joan L. Kendall. C)erk to the Hoard of the County of Dakota, State of hfinnesota, do hereby certify that I have compared the
foregoing copy of a resolution with the origins) minutes of the proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners, Dakota County,
Minnesota. at their session held on the 17th day of Decemberlg 91 now on the in the County
Administration Department, and have found the same to be a true and correct copy thereof.
Witness my hand and official scai of Dakota County this ._ � � l day of&-r,..,o •7 �1�
CoastZ:uCtion_ and Operation Conditions
Department approval is required before the MICF may utilize waste as
cover material or for surfaces of.. ramps and roadways within a cell.
Approval will be based on physical and chemical characteristics as
well as general suitability of the waste.
The. monthly operating report shall include the following additional
information: (1) a description of the wastes accepted and (2) the
addresses of the generators.
The leachate monitoring report will also include an annual assessment
of the leachate production expected in the new cells based on the
actual data collected from an active cell.
Closure/Post Closure and Financial Assurance Condition
Before MICF's initial acceptance of waste, USPCI shall implement a
financial assurance plan covering closure and postclosure care that
has been approved by the county Board.
Additional itions
Prior to the construction of cells 6-10, the portion of the facility
now zoned agricultural, must be rezoned as a Waste Management District
by the City of Rosemount.
The County license is contingent upon USPCI obtaining an Industrial
Solid Waste Land Disposal Permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency (MPGA) and an Interim Use Permit from the City of Rosemount.
USPCI.is required to pay the license application fee of $34,068.00,
which includes 501 hours of staff time at $68.00 per hour, and a
license fee of $4,890.00 for operation in 1992 as specified in County
Board Resolutions Numbers 90-860, November 20, 1990, and 91-789,
November 19, 1991,.respectively.
i and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That USPCI be granted a variance from ordinance No.
110, Section Iii., Subsections 1., D. and E., to allow Siting this facility
within 1,000 feet of residential dwellings and public roadways.