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<br />II <br />, <br /> <br />.... <br /> <br />Ii <br /> <br />RESOLUTION NO__ 85-:t~~ <br /> <br />STATE OF MINNESOTA <br />COUNTY OF RAMSEY <br />CITY OF NEW BRIGHTON <br /> <br />RESOLUTION GRANTING THE GORDON RENDERING COMPANY AN OFFENSIVE <br />TRADES LICENSE AND AFFIXING CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF OPERATION <br /> <br />WHEREAS. The City of New Brighton is responsible for the <br />general saFety. health. welfare and well-being of its residents <br />,and has establ ished codes to aid in carrying out this <br />responsibil fty; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS. City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Departrment <br />'Regulations and Chapter 15. Article VII. entitled OFfensive. <br />Dangerous Trades. and Metropolitan Sewer Board Rules and <br />,:Regu 1 at ions for the Metropo 1 i tan 0 i sposa 1 System and the <br />jiMinesota Pollution Control Agency Regulations all apply to the <br />operation of the Gordon Rendering Company as a rendering <br />business; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS. the City is aware and has been inFormed that <br />"certain deficiencies in the operation or the Gordon Rendering <br />Company's old plant have occurred in the past with respect to <br />'these codes. rules. regulations and standards and could occur <br />with the new plant; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS. these deFiciencies when they have occurred. have <br />iaffected the safety. health. welfare and well-being of the City's <br />:residents in that they have caused plugging of the sanitary sewer <br />I; and 1 i ft stat ions. i nterrerence with san i tary sewer serv ice to <br />:others. dumping of raw sewage on the open ground and/or often <br />resulted in offensive odors in the neighborhood; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS. on April 23. 1985 a stack emission test. in <br />conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method <br />(ASTH) 0-1397-57. was performed on the emission from the stack of <br />,the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant <br />'facil ities at 19-14th Street NE and such test indicated an <br />average odor level of 15.0 odor units per cubic foot and a total <br />emission rate of 601.100 odor units per minute. These figures <br />iare less than the limit of 150 odor units allowed and less than <br />one million odor units per minute allowed by APC-9; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS. a second emission test was performed on October <br />15. 1985. which indicate an average odor level of 5.2 odor units <br />iper cubic foot and a total emission rate of 203.500 odor units <br />,per minute. These figures are less than the limit of 150 odor <br />units per minute allowed and less than one million odor units per <br />minute allowed by APC-9; and <br /> <br />NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED. that the OFfensive Trades <br />License of the Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the <br />:fol lowing conditions: <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />All doors and windows shall be kept closed during <br />periods of operation so that all rendering plant <br />air will be processed through a scrubber. except <br />during periods of loading and unloading when loading <br />doors may be open but these periods shall be kept to <br />a minimum. <br /> <br />;' <br /> <br />2. The Gordon Rendering Company shall continue to perform <br />all ob1 iqations required of it by its agreement with <br />the City of New Brighton dated January 25. 1977 and as <br />amended by an agreement dated December 12. 1978. <br /> <br />I <br />,i <br />'I <br /> <br />I' <br />:j <br />