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Elk River Landfill, CUP Page 2 January 6, 1993 • Included with memo is the revised conditional use permit and, for information, a revised license. The changes staff recommends to these documents are as follows : 1 . CUP SECTION 11(03) PAGE 14/LICENSE SECTION 12 (03) PAGE 17 In these sections a fee per yard of municipal solid waste disposed of at the landfill is required to be placed in an escrow account to ensure that the City has funds to resolve City concerns, if the landfill were to close. Staff is recommending this fee be changed from $. 15 per yard to $ . 10 per yard. However, staff recommends the maximum amount in this fund be raised from $300,000 to $400,000 . The landfill would be charged this fee until the escrow account reaches $250,000 . At that point, the landfill would no longer continue to pay the fee. Interest would, however, continue to increase the fund amount until $400,000 has been reached. After that point, the City would place the interest incurred in a fund chosen by the City Council . 2 . CUP SECTION 16 (PAGE 15) • The landfill has expressed concerns regarding the cost of City consultants during renewals of their permits without the landfill having any control . In order to ensure a frugal use of consultant time, staff recommends the City pay 30% of the cost incurred during the conditional use permit renewal process . The license fee would remain $2, 000 (LICENSE SECTION 17, PAGE 18) . Further, in conditional use permit Section 16 , staff recommends the City allow the landfill to pay $1, 000 per month towards the conditional use permit renewal fees, which would be balanced up or down at the end of the year. This will help the landfill budget. 3 . LICENSE SECTION 14 Staff recommends the expiration date found in this section be revised to read January 31, 1995 . A further attempt to be efficient with the use of consultant time involves City staff and County staff trying to get the City Council and County Board to agree to the shared use of B.A. Liesch & Associates as environmental consultants for both the City and County. Peter Beck will be at Tuesday' s meeting to address any further questions you may have regarding the • proposed changes .