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Case File: CU 09-19 <br />Pagc 2 <br />GENERAL INFORMATION: <br />GRE CUP <br />City of Ilk Ricer <br />A lieant: Great River Ener <br />Requested Action Amend Conditional Use Permit and License <br />to burn alternative fuels <br />Location and Size: 17845 East Highway 10 <br />Location Existing Land Use Land Use Plan Designation Current <br /> Zoning <br />Property in Solid Waste Facility I1 (SWF) I1 (SWF) <br />Question <br />North Multi-family and Light Industrial/Old Town R3 <br /> Commercial <br />South Commercial Right of Way C3 <br />East Commercial and Highway Business PUD <br />BP <br />C3 <br /> Office/Warehouse , <br />, <br />West River N/A N/A <br />Overview <br />GRE's Solid Waste Facility license and CUP both need to be amended to allow burning of <br />alternative fuels. GRE is evaluating purchasing Resource Recovery Technologies (RRT) processing <br />facility and landfill. RRT currently provides the RDF to the GRE's Elk River Station. Currently, <br />there is a short supply of municipal solid waste, which results in higher operational costs. Allowing <br />GRE to burn the alternative fuels will help reduce the operating costs. <br />GRE conducted test burns of TDF earlier this year. The City's Environmental Consultant, John <br />Lichter and I have reviewed the test results. The emissions tests did not reach any of the permitted <br />limits. As indicated in John's letter dated October 1, 2009 there is no technical reason to deny the <br />CUP since GRE uses state-of--the-art controls and emissions monitoring devices. <br />The existing Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) air emissions permit for GRE does allow <br />TDF to be used at a rate not to exceed 200 tons per day (tpd) in any 24-hour period and 100 tpd on <br />a 30-day rolling average. However, the MPCA air emissions permit does not allow the Elk River <br />Station to burn wood or wood waste. Staff recommends that GRE be allowed to burn wood and <br />wood waste excluding treated or painted wood, if approval is granted from the Minnesota Pollution <br />Control Agency (MPCA). Burning of treated or painted wood shall not be allowed unless and until <br />approval is received from the MPCA and the GRE has completed testing as required by the City. <br />S:APLANNING IvIAIN\Case Files\CUP\CU 09-19 GRi:AStaff report to PC.doe <br />