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Mid America Washout Grand Island, LLC is a Nebraska limited liability company. For the purposes of this attachment,the term "Applicant" should be considered to be Mid.America Washout Grand Island, LLC when discussing the construction and operation of a livestock trailer washout facility. OPERATOR EXPERIENCE AND HISTORY Mid America Washout Grand Island,LW is wholly owned by Chad Ruda and Sarah Ruda Mr. Ruda grew up on his teacher father's small acreage near Fremont,Nebraska and helped raise bucket calves and other assorted livestock. Mr.Ruda attended Midland College in Fremont and played football. During his six years in college and a change of majors,he concluded that hard work was the secret to success. He obtained employment with Wiechman Pig Company and learned from an excellent mentor the business ess of buying livestock and the principles of ethical business rnanagement. He started at minimum wage but his hard work and long hours did not go unnoticed. Soon he was earning a very goocl salary as a very success5.F' + , As part of that work he saw many truckloads of livestock being transported and unloaded ,n Fremont,and later he too drove trucks. He also noticed that cleaning out trucks is a continuing problem if there is no reliable facility nearby. At that time the nearest trailer washout was in West Point,35 miles away. In approximately 2005, with the encouragement of his wife who suggested that he do only one thing and to do it better than anyone else,be built a trailer washout in Fremont. There was a lot to learn if he wanted to do it right and he wanted to do it right. Mr.And Mrs.Ruda dealt with, government regulators including the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality as the representative of the federal EPA. He hired engineers:to help design facilities that would satisfy the regulations. He obtained information and assistance from scientists and from the University of Nebraska. He deals with regulatory officials and health scientists every month. Attached are examples of monthly waste water quality reports for a couple of his facilities. Attachment#3. There was stiff competition from facilities who offered cheap washouts but who did not feel compelled to follow the rules or to protect the environment. Financial disaster was always a real possibility. But Rudas persevered and now have made the Fremont operation one they are proud to ovum. ; 9 R facility i City, t_ g. �� z owner of washout facile in Dodge �..zt Kazasas wartec. :s�s ,ck: encouragement of the IKDHEQ. Mr. Ruda informed the Kansas environmental quality officials that he wanted a list of all the defects they could see in the facility and he went to work to remedy all the defects. The agencies were more than pleased to have Mr. Ruda buy the business,along with his investment of more than$200,000 in corrections and improvements to the facility. A facility in South Sioux City,Nebraska was distressed in 201 land Mr. Ruda purchased it with 2