BOARD02205

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

facilities. These are recycling type of
facilities at all of their plants.

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Kuner has recently installed ponds at
their plants and they are being uSed to
irrigate pasture land that they own.

So with regard to the manufacturing
type industries, I think we are going to be
in good shape by the end of this year. Now
this doesn't, of course, cover feedlots or
mine drainage. We are just now getting
started on setting abatement dates for feed-
lots. At yesterday's commission meeting this
was discussed. The agricultural members of
our commission felt that maybe through an
educational program we can get quite a bit
accomplished. If they find out it really
isn't as tough a job to clean up this agri-
cultural waste as they think, that they will
go ahead and do it. Really with regard to
feedlots, by properly draining the feedlot
to a pond, they can reuse this to irrigate
their land, the manure can be reused on their
land and keep it all out of the streams.
They can even get a federal grant of up to
50 percent for assistance in doing this. I
believe it is through the Soil Conservation
Service.

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Regarding mine drainage, we are working
with a professor out at the School of Mines
who hopes that he will be able to get a
federal grant and at least inventory the sit-
uation for us. We feel that just as in feed-
lots when we finally made an inventory it
amounted to less than ten percent of all
those feedlots that he felt might be contri-
buting to pollution. He thinks that with
regard to mine drainage this may be the same
situation. I know that at one of our early
commission meetings back in '66 or '67, the
deputy commissioner of mines, at that time
Mr. Franz, said that there were some 30,000
holes in the ground and how many were operative