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'7^ V - <br />iV -.^i <br />w <br />i <br />;-'-r <br />4tl:2'-'■ir:>r <br />FACTS ABOUT: MUNICIPAL SERVICE: CORPORATION <br />Municipal Services Corporation ("MSC") is a suosic^ary of US?'-^, Inc., a <br />company that has provided safe, effective solutions to Ar.erca'_s tougnest <br />waste problems over the past Uo decades. USPCI is a suosiJiary or the Union <br />Pacific Corporation, a Fortune 100 transportation, energy and natural resource <br />company established in 1862. <br />MSC was founded to develop comprehensive systems for the management of <br />municipal solid waste ash ("MSW ash") including processing, utilization, and <br />disDOsal as well as the management of other non-hazardous municipal, <br />industrial and commercial waste streams. MSC is headguartered in Kennesaw, <br />Georgia. <br />Research and Development <br />Usino its own laboratory and pilot plant research and development facilities, <br />MSC has developed technology to manufacture a synthetic, construction-grade <br />aggregate from MSW ash. The aggregate passes stringent state and federa <br />tlits for environmental safety and physical strength, ano is a valuable voo <br />for preserving irreplaceable natural mineral 1 <br />disposal capacity. The synthetic aggregate product i be Suiu^ole .or <br />number of applications, primarily aspnalt paving and roao base. <br />Echo Mountain Facility Development <br />To augment the MSC program for MSW ash utilization, the company <br />an existing disposal facility located about 9 miles from Sawyer, (lor.h Dakota <br />and re-named it Echo Mountain Facility. <br />The MSC plan for development of the this ^posal^ facil ity jncjudes expansion <br />of the site and an upgrading of the design lO currenc SLdt - <br />environmv^ntal technology" This includes leacnate first <br />monitoring and composite liner system "obstruction. When compleU^^^^ <br />cell to be constructed by MSC will pxceec state end federal standaros ror <br />environmental safety in the disposal of non-hazardous wastes .y a wide margin. <br />Facility Operation <br />Current plans contemplate that beginning in the second^ hai fo/ 199!, the MSC <br />Echo Mountain Facility will begin accepting about 270 tons <br />of MSW ash in enclosed rail containers. In .edition -o '^J^cUitv for^ the <br />canacitv MSC is planning to install equipment .it .^, . j <br />recovery’of metals ^from MSW ash. The metals will be will <br />steel mills for recycling into new products. The Echo n Faci 11ty w <br />continue to accept non-hazardous ccrrmercial arc industrial waSte. w <br />currently disposed of at the site. <br />The combination of expe.ncnce. technical nationwide resource <br />financial strength and operating re utation mane MSC .no ‘J. Pf <br />USPCI, Inc. and Union Pacific Corporation, ^ A <br />responsibility of managing the Echo Mountain Facility us.ng a. , p <br />environmental management techniques. <br />For Further Informiition Conuvic^. <br />Fred Gustin <br />(zci^ w2i-19C" <br />:dCd' 199-9219 FA.X _ <br />A'