HomeMy WebLinkAbout4424 - ADMIN Resolution - City Council - 1972/01/031,
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January 3, 1972
RESOLUTION NO. 4424
RESOLUTION
IN RELATION TO
MINNESOTA POLLUTION CONTROL AGENCY
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park is the official
governing body of the City of St. Louis Park, and
WHEREAS, the City Council understands that the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency is contemplating the approval of certain regulations and standards entitled
"Implementation Plan", and
WHEREAS, as part of a plan there is provision made for the delegation of
authority to local units, which local unit for Hennepin County would be the
Minneapolis agency, and
WHEREAS, the City Council on May 20, 1968, passed a comprehensive
air pollution ordinance and has since implemented an effective and progressive
air pollution control program within St. Louis Park through the use of
consultants and extensively trained professional staff, the purchase of
equipment and the use of necessary enforcement procedures, and
WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes the need for regional coordination
of air pollution control but at the same time believes that local air pollution
problems can best be controlled by the City of St. Louis Park because:
1. The City already has a competent staff experienced in
local pollution problems.
2. 'The St. Louis Park pollution control program has been
successful and is an integral part of an overall enforcement
program which overlaps with other programs of the City
thereby adding to the comprehensiveness and effectiveness
of all the programs, and
WHEREAS, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has always encouraged
and supported the St. Louis Park pollution control program, and
WHEREAS, the City' Council believes it important to establish and maintain
the participation of local government bodies in state programs, particularly
in the area of pollution control, and
WHEREAS, the proposed Implementation Plan casts doubt upon the continued
existence and effectiveness of the St. Louis Park pollution control program,
therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of St. Louis Park in
regular meeting assembled that the City Council opposes the approval by
the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency of its Implementation Plan to the
extent that the plan appears to delegate the authority and responsibility solely
to the Minneapolis agency to police and enforce the pollution control programs
within the corporate limits of the City of St. Louis Park and requests that the
plan be clarified to indicate that the City of St. Louis Park will have full
authority under the plan to police and enforce pollution control programs
within its corporate boundaries subject to meeting reasonable guidelines set
by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City Clerk cause a copy of this
Resolution to be aelivered to the Pollution Control Agency before it considers
whether or not to approve its Implementation Plan and that the Pollution Control
Agency be urgently requested to consider the position of the City of St. Louis
Park with regard to this plan.
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Adopted by the City Council nuary 3, 1972.
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