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RESOLUTION NO. 5663
A RESOLUTION RELATING, TO OAK PARK VILLAGE,
ESTABLISHING, A POLICY OF NOT PASSING ON ANY
COSTS OF SOIL RECLAMATION OR GROUNDWATER
PROTECTION TO PROPERTY OWNERS NOT
RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CREATION OF
THE CONTAMINATED CONDITIONS
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS PARK:
1. The development of Oak Park Village will involve future sales
of property owned by the IIRA to private parties.
2. The Minnesota Department of Health and the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency are presently conducting studies of possible threats to
the groundwater resulting from prior discharges of the Republic Creosote
Plants. The groundwater studies now in process; or other such studies in
the future, may show the need'to take certain reclamation actions, such
as pumping or excavation, on the property now owned by the HRA, to pro-
tect the groundwater from contamination.
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3. The City Council of St. Louis Park does not believe that the
costs of any such future reclamation actions should be passed on to pur-
chasers of property in Oak Park Village who did not cause or contribute
to causing the soil contamination. The City Council intends to enter,
into a stipulation with the Minnesota Department of Health and the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency that neither party will attempt
to hold such owners of property responsible for any needed reclamation
costs in Oak Park Village.
Adopted by the City Council January 3, 1977.
,Attest:
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