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1.~ 1; I 1~1 RESOLUTION NO. 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 responsibilty, and WHEREAS City Code Chapter 24 entitled Sewer Department Reg- ulations and Chapter 15, Article VII, 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 Company's old plant have occurred in the past with respect to these codes, rules, reg- ulations 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, interference 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 18, 1979 stack emission tests, in complete conformance with American Society for Testing Materials Method D-1391-57, were performed on the emmissions from the stack of the scrubber serving the Gordon Rendering Company plant facilities at 19 14th Street NE and such tests indicated an odor level of 8 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission of 318,000 odor units per minute. These figures are less than the limit of 150 odor units allowed and less than one million odor units per minute allowed by APC-9, and WHEREAS A second emissions test was performed on October 18, 1979 which indicated an average odor level of 14 odor units per cubic foot and a total emission of 540,000 odor units per minute. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, That the Offensive Trades License of Gordon Rendering Company be granted under the following conditions: 1. All doors and windows shall be kept closed 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. Gordon Rendering Company shall continue to perform all obligations required of it by its agreement with the City of New Brighton dated January 25, 1977 and as amended by an agreement dated December 12, 1978.