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Item { 5.4. MEMORANDUM TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Stephen Rohlf, Building and Environmental Administrator DATE: September 7, 2004 SUBJECT: Environmental Assessment Worksheet for J & B Mining Included in your packet is a copy of the Environmental Assessment Worksheet (EAW) for the J & B Mining request. The purpose of the EAW is to describe the project and gather information to identify any potential environmental effects. The City Council for the City of Elk River is the Responsible Governmental Unit (RGU) charged with determining from the information gathered through the EAW process, whether or not this project has significant potential to cause irreversible environmental effects. If the Council feels there is a significant potential to cause irreversible environmental effects, they shall order an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) be prepared for the project. To make their decision the Council will consider the following information: the EAW itself, comments received on the EAW, and the responses to the comments received. The Council shall order an Environmental Impact Statement be prepared, if they determine that the impacts that may reasonably be expected by the project have the potential for significant environmental effects. The Council shall consider the impacts of the project under the following criteria: · type, extent, and reversibility of the environmental effects; · cumulative potential effects of related or anticipated future projects; · the extent to which the environmental effects are subject to mitigation by ongoing public regulatory authority; and · the extent to which environmental effects can be anticipated and controlled as a result of other environmental studies. RESPONSE TO COMMENTS Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) - letter from James Sullivan, dated August 17, 2004. Comment -Project potentially needs a permit from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for mining peat.