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Supplement to Application for Conditional Use Permit SOLUTION TO A PUBLIC PROBLEM Applicant brings to the attention of the Hall County Board of Supervisors a solution to a public health problem. Livestock fecal material is regularly and indiscriminately being accidently spilled upon the public streets and highways of towns and cities in Hall County,Nebraska. Livestock slaughtering facilities and livestock feed lots require the transportation of cattle and other livestock upon the public roads by large trucks and semis. During such transport, livestock urinate and defecate in the boxes of the trucks and trailers. When the fecal material fills above a certain level,the material spills out of the trucks and onto the roadways. Such spills add to the odors and air pollution of the residential areas through which such trucks must pass. The spilled materials on the roadways create hazards for the motoring public who may not be fully able to avoid collisions and other automotive mishaps because of loss of traction affecting steering and braking. Municipalities bear a substantial risk of liability if the attempts at clean-up are inadequate. Applicant can help alleviate a substantial share of the problems citizens and municipalities of Hall County now must bear. Applicant can sell a parcel of land to Mid America Washout Grand Island,LLC and encourage the construction of a Livestock Trailer Washout Facility and 'z-;x,T1tage Mid America Washout Grand LLC to operate a b.3:1:1, :S. hat bad. livestock. The business can offer its services to livestock t1-uckJ Kr at-(1. reasonable fee and at times convenient to such operators and thereby re:. uce We ;r.;} our o. material that might spill from such trucks as they drive over the local highways and through the municipalities in the county. LIVESTOCK TRAILER WASHOUT FACILITY In brief description,a livestock trailer washout facility is a business operation in which livestock trailers,typically semi truck trailers,are driven or backed into a steeply sloped concrete floored building. A worker with a high pressure water hose sprays the floors and inner sides of the trailer to wash the manure and bedding material,usually wood chips or saw dust,toward the open rear of the trailer. The material pours down into a floor drain system that screens the solids into a separate containment area and that allows the water and suspended tiny particles to flow to the large lagoon outdoors where naturally occurring biological organisms digest the materials into an agriculturally usable form which can be recycled or sold. No chemicals are used,not even soap. After the approximately 45 minute process is completed and the trailer is clean,the truck pulls ahead and out of the facility and the next truck can drive or back in. THE BUILDERIOPERATOR Applicant has agreed to sell Applicant's land to Mid America Washout Grand.island, LLC%aoc has agreed to assign to Mid America Washout Grand Island, LLC a Condition& User t A pplic?nf s application is approved. 1