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<br />';.. <br />t <br />. . . <br /> ., <br /> RESOLUTION NO. 2280 <br /> STATE OF MINNESOTA <br /> COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br /> I <br /> I CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON <br /> RESOLUTION GRANTING GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE TRADES <br /> LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION <br /> I WHEREAS The City of New Brighton is responsible for the <br /> I general safety, health, welfare and well-being of its residents <br /> I and has established codes to aid in carrying out this responsibil y, <br /> and <br />I WHEREAS City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Department Reg- <br /> ulations and Chapter 15, Article VII, entitled Offensive Trades, <br /> and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and Regulations for the <br /> Metropolitan Disposal System and the Minnesota Pollution Control <br /> Agency Standards all apply to the operation of Gordon Rendering <br /> Company as a rendering business, and <br />I WHEREAS The City is aware and has been informed that certain <br />I deficiencies in the operation of Gordon Company's old plant have <br /> I occurred in the past with re$pect to these codes, rules, reg- <br />I ulations and standards and could occur with the new plant, and <br /> WHEREAS These deficiencies when they have occurred, have <br />I affected the safety, health, welfare and well-being of the <br />I City's residents in that they have caused plugging of the <br /> sanitary sewer and lift stations, interference with sanitary <br />I sewer service to others, dumping of raw sewage on the open <br />I <br /> ground and/or have often resulted in offensive odors in the <br /> neighborhood, and <br /> WHEREAS On April 18, 1979 stack emission tests, in complete <br />Ii conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method <br />II D-1391-57, were performed on the emmissions from the stack of <br />i the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant facilitie <br />II at 19 14th Street NE and such tests indicated an odor level of <br /> 8 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission of 318,000 odor <br />II units per minute. These ~igures are less than the limit of 150 <br /> odor units allowed and less than one million odor units per <br /> minute allowed by APC-9, and <br />I WHEREAS A second emissions test was performed on October 18, <br />I 1979 which indicated an average odor level of 14 odor units per <br /> cubic foot and a total emission of 540,000 odor units per minute. <br /> NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades <br /> License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the followin <br /> conditions: <br /> 1. All doors and windows shall be kept closed during period <br /> of operation so that all rendering plant air will be <br />I processed through a scrubber or burned, except during <br /> periods of loading and unloading when loading doors <br /> may be open but these periods shall be kept to a minimum <br /> I 2. Gordon Rendering Company shall continue to perform all <br /> obligations required of it by its agreement with the <br /> City of New Brighton dated January 25, 1977 and as <br /> amended by an agreement dated December 12, 1978. <br /> I <br />II <br />