1989-03-13 Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• Minutes, Public Hearing and Regular Meeting La Porte City Council March 13, 1989, Page 5 Council then considered items added to the agenda at 9:30 A.M. on March 10, as follows: 1. Executive Session - V.A.T.S. - Article 6252-17, Section 2 (E), (F), (G), (R) - (Legal, Land Acquisition, Personnel and Conference(s) with City Employee(s) to Receive Information) Discussion with Attorney regarding Houston Chemical Services, Inc. 2. Consider ordinance establishing hazardous waste incinerator siting requirements. Council adjourned into executive session at 6:57 P.M. and returned to the Council table at 8:23 P.M. Council considered an ordinance establishing hazardous waste incinerator siting requirements. The City Attorney read: ORDINANCE 1634 - AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING HAZARDOUS WASTE INCINERATOR SITING REQUIREMENTS; PROVIDING ANY PERSON, FIRM OR CORPORATION WHO VIOLATES ANY PROVISIONS OF THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE DEEMED GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR, AND UPON CONVICTION SHALL BE FINED NOT MORE THAN $200.00; PROVIDING CIVIL REMEDIES, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT WITH OTHER LAWS AND ORDINANCES; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAW; AND PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE EFFECTIVE UPON ITS PASSAGE, APPROVAL, AND PUBLICATION OF ITS CAPTION AS REQUIRED BY LAW. Brent Ryan, Special Counsel for the City, pointed out several revisions to the original draft of the ordinance in Section 2 A.(2) and 2 A.(3). Part of the first sentence in each of those sections was changed to read: "No hazardous waste incinerator facility which accepts for treatment, storage, or disposal, hazardous waste generated off -site and which has..." Councilperson Waters made the recommendation that thirty million BTU per hour in Section 2 A.(2) be changed to fifty million BTU per hour and the distance be changed from three thousand feet to six thousand feet; and in Section 2 A.(3) that one hundred million BTU per hour be changed to seventy-five million BTU per hour and the distance be changed from one mile to ten thousand feet.