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Special Use Permit – Pioneer Paper Stock of MN Planning Commission Report; 7-18-23 Page 5 (cont.) (Sec. 6-130.2, R.) as we are not pressing or molding pulp goods into other paper products. We are much closer aligned with the Permitted Uses for the I-1 district (Sec. 6-030.5, U.) for handling finished paper products. Our small fleet of tractor trailers deliver empty bins in trailers to our customers (printing companies), then pick up full trailers for the return trip with filled bins of paper recyclables. We also receive compactor bins full of cardboard from other customers. Inbound trucks will be weighed on our truck scale, then back up to one of the dock doors or overhead doors to be unloaded or dumped. Incoming bins are unloaded inside our building where they are sorted by grade, placed into staging area bunkers, and pushed onto a conveyor that feeds a baler. We have two balers inside, and operate forklifts, skid loaders and a front-end loader inside the building to handle the recyclables. The completed bales will either be put directly onto a staged trailer or stacked in a bale area within the plant. Full trailers with bales get delivered to a paper mill and pulped into a recycled product. Some of the paper mills provide us with empty staged trailers to load as we are baling their product, so when they arrive to pick up a load, their trailer is preloaded to avoid delays in loading at the time of their arrival. We also will have an area within the plant for document shredding and baling. This is a relatively small part of our operation but is a service we provide to our customers who rely on confidential materials being destroyed. The shredder will have a dust collection system contained within the building to control dust. We take pride in our safety and environmental programs in our plants. We have a corporate Environmental Health and Safety Director that works closely with all of our operations to provide guidance on all safety and environmental rules and regulations; and to make sure we are not only meeting the standards but exceed them in many ways. Although our Plant does not require noise protection under OSHA rules, we strongly encourage noise protection for our employees and provide them with proper PPE for their protection. Importantly, our internal machinery noise will be contained within the building very well, since the building walls are 12” thick concrete wall panels; and the roof has approximately 5” of insulation, both of which contains noise and vibrations from escaping. All of our dock doors face east, towards I-35W and away from nearby residential areas. We are confident we will not be a detriment to the neighborhood. All loading and unloading will be on the east side of the building facing I-35W, completely contained within the fenced area on the east side of the site and screened from our neighbors. All handling of the product will be done inside the building. Our plants do not emit odors from our operations. The products we collect and bale are primarily clean pre-consumer scrap paper and clean cardboard loads.