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- - 8 <br /> RESOLUTION NO. <br /> A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City of Everett relating to <br /> community renewal; finding that a blighted area existswhere the former Asarco <br /> Smelter was located and that rehabilitation and redevelopment is necessary in the <br /> public interest. <br /> WHEREAS,the Washington State Department of Ecology("Ecology")has designated <br /> portions of northeast Everett as the"Everett Asarco Site,"has placed the site on the state's <br /> Hazardous Sites List, and has given the site a hazard ranking of"1"(greatest assessed risk to <br /> human health and the environment); and <br /> WHEREAS, in November 1999,Ecology, after public review and comment and <br /> consultation with the City, issued a integrated Final Cleanup Action Plan and Final <br /> Environmental Impact Statement for the upland area of the Asarco Smelter Site("FCAP"),in <br /> compliance with the Model Toxics Control Act("MTCA") and State Environmental Policy Act <br /> ("SEPA"), and which included analysis of future land use under the City of Everett <br /> comprehensive plan and development regulations adopted under the Growth Management Act; <br /> and <br /> WHEREAS,the FCAP states that"The Everett Smelter Site is a portion of Northeast <br /> Everett contaminated by arsenic,lead, and other metals. The contamination was caused by <br /> emissions from the Everett Smelter between 1894 and 1912, and by material left behind when <br /> the smelter was demolished between 1912 and 1915. The property was sold in various parcels <br /> between 1915 and 1936, and homes were built on many of the parcels;" and <br /> WHEREAS,the FCAP describes the existence of smelter debris, flue dust and <br /> emissions,hazardous soils, substances and materials at the Asarco Smelter Site that contain <br /> arsenic,lead and other toxic chemical concentrations at very high levels in excess of than state <br /> - cleanup levels for residential and other properties,which have created unsafe conditions that are <br /> conducive to ill health transmission of disease, and pose a threat to human health and the <br /> environment; and <br /> WHEREAS,the FCAP also found that"Contaminated soils in the residential <br /> communities raise health concerns because of, among other concerns,the potential for ingestion <br /> by children in the course of their normal activities in residential yards;" and <br /> Lt <br /> Page 1 of 3 <br />