2004/05/05 Council Agenda Packet

is enough room to also handle the same hazardous material from Everett. That accounts for about 40% (or 40,000 tons) of the material that will come from the Everett cleanup. The OCF is available until the end of August 2004 when it must be closed. If the OCF cannot be used commercial landfills will need to be used. Costs at commercial hazardous waste landfills for transportation and disposal range from $160-450 per ton depending on various factors, primarily how the material must be treated before disposal. Those costs add a range of $6-16 million to the cleanup cost. The Everett material would likely be in the low mid range or about$10 million. ✓ The remaining 60,000 tons of material that needs to come out of the site can be used as backfill at the Ruston site as long as it is available (through early 2006). If it can't go there it must be disposed in a solid waste landfill (like the Roosevelt Landfill in Klickitat County that takes trash from Snohomish County). The additional cost to take that material to Roosevelt is $20-30 per ton. That would add another$1.2-1.8 million to the cleanup. ✓ There is $1 million in Asarco Trust money that is allocated this year. (Due to Asarco's financial troubles which are due mostly to a combination of cleanup obligations at 27 other sites across the nation and depressed copper prices.) Because the Everett site is the only one in the country being funded by the Trust that isn't also a federal superfund site, it is almost certain it would never be funded again if this opportunity is missed. Asarco had to link the funding this year to how it aided the Ruston cleanup which is winding down. ✓ A $1 million toxics cleanup grant went unused this past year and was returned to WDOE. Due to its perception that the Everett Smelter project could be a reality WDOE staff has held that money for Everett. WDOE funding may not be secured again in the future. ✓ The WDOE grant is only available because of the involvement of a government agency (EHA). If an agency like EHA doesn't become involved in property ownership the only way to secure state funding would be to get a special appropriation through the legislature. ✓ The property has a potential value, if it is cleaned up. At this point it appears that the property value, combined with the opportunity for low cleanup costs and the other available monies makes it worth enough as residential property to fund the cleanup. If the cleanup cost goes up we're back at a point where people will need to reconsider whether it is worth having residential uses on the site or whether other uses would need to be considered. In any event the property value would again plummet. ✓ Why does the Everett Housing Authority care about this? ✓ At the current time all of EHA's ownership is adjacent to or within 1 mile of the site. As a consequence everything EHA does is affected by the Asarco site. If EHA wishes to redevelop any of its sites it will be impacted by the proximity to the Asarco property. •S Why does EHA need anything from the City?