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1 . ~ . - . " ,- ... ,r' RESOLUTION NO. 1804 STATE OF MINNESOTA COUNTY OF RAMSEY CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON RESOLUTION GRANTING GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE TRADES LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION WHEREAS The City of New Brighton is responsible for the general safety, health, welfare and well-being of its residents and has established codes to aid in carrying out this responsi- bility, and WHEREAS City Code Sections 265 entitled Sewer Department Regulations and 860 entitled Offensive Trades, and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and Regulations for the Metropolitan Disposal System and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Standards all apply to the operation of Gordon Rendering Company as a rendering business, and WHEREAS The City is aware and has been informed that certain deficiencies in the operation of Gordon Rendering Company1s old plant have occurred in the past with respect to these codes, rules, regulations and standards and could occur with the new plant, and WHEREAS These deficiencies when they have occurred, have affected the safety, health, welfare and well-being of The City's residents in that they have caused plugging of the sanitary sewer and lift stations, inter~erence with sanitary sewer service to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open ground and/or have often resulted in offensive odors in the neighborhood, and WHEREAS on April 13, 1976 stack emission tests, in complete conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method 0-1391-57, were performed on the emissions from the stack of the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant facilities at 19 14th St. NE and such tests indicated odor levels of 50, 49 and 37 odor units, which are well below the 1irr,it of 150 odor units allowed by Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Regulation APC-9. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the following conditions: 1. Ail doors and windows shall be kept'c10sed during periods of operation so that all rendering plant air will be processed through a scrubber or burned, except during periods of loading and unloading when loading doors may be open but these periods shall be kept to a minimum. 2. That there shall be concluded by January 14, 1977 between the City and the Gordon Rendering Company (hereinafter referred to as Company) an agreement in J:egard to emission tests which shall provide as follows: