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<br /> A Metropolitan Council Bulletin forCom un RAHSEY '
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<br /> For more information on items in this publication, call t 1 5 ! 53 NO,THEN ~LVD NW
<br />February 4, 1983
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<br />RECENT COUNCIL ACTIONS (Jan. 24-Feb. 4)
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<br />METROPOLITAN COUNCIL
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<br /> Parks--The Metropolitan Council amended an acquisition
<br />grant contract with Ramsey County by providing $106,000
<br />to purchase 12 parcels of land in the Lilydale segment of the
<br />Lilydale-Harriet Island Regional Pa~k. The new contract totals
<br />$3.7 million.
<br /> The Council also amended an acquisition grant contract
<br />with Hennepin County Park Reserve District for Lake Rebecca
<br />Park Reserve. The Council provided $90,000'to purchase
<br />about nine wooded acres for a new total of $252~500.
<br /> Comprehensive Plans-The Council said the Medicine Lake
<br />comprehensive plan conforms with plans for regional growth
<br />and development.
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<br />COMMITTEES OF THE COUNCIL
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<br /> The Human Resources Committee approved a certificate-of-
<br />need request from Catholic Services for the Elderly, Inc.,
<br />St. Paul, to build a 135-bed nursing home near the intersection
<br />of Thompson, Carmel and Bellows Ars., West St. Paul. The
<br />recommendation overturned a recent Metropolitan Health
<br />Planning Board vote to deny approval of the project, estimated
<br />to cost $7.1 million.
<br /> The committee also approved a certificate-of-need request
<br />by North Memorial Medical Center, 3220 Lowry Ay. N.,
<br />Robbinsdale, to remodel its perinatal services at an estimated
<br />cost of $2.5 million.
<br /> The Physical Development Committee recommended
<br />approving the proposed scope of an environmental impact
<br />statement on candidate sites for disposal of sewage sludge and
<br />sludge ash. The committee also recommended the Council
<br />eliminate Site 4 in Forest Lake from further consideration and
<br />direct staff to locate additional landfill sites to fill the Council's
<br />required complement of six candidate sites.
<br /> The committee recommended holding a public meeting to
<br />help define the scope of an environmental impact statement
<br />on the proposed expansion of the Flying Cloud solid waste
<br />landfill in Eden Prairie. The meeting would be held from 7 to
<br />10 p.m., March 9, at the Hennepin County Technical Center,
<br />Eden Prairie.
<br /> The committee recommended that the Minnesota Pollution
<br />Control Agency review existing area-wide designations of
<br />"nonattainment" for carbon monoxide and "unclassified" for
<br />ozone and change them to "attainment" status if warranted.
<br />The committee also recommended that the Minnesota Depart-
<br />ment of Transportation study carbon monoxide concentrations
<br />in and near the intersection of Snelling and University Avs.,
<br />St. Paul, during the remainder of 1983.
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<br />PUBLIC HEARINGS
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<br /> Metropolitan Health Planning Board-- Feb. 23, Council
<br />Chambers.
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<br /> 5 p.m.-Wedgewood Health Care Center, 2060 Upper
<br />55th St., Inver Grove Heights; certificate-of-need request to
<br />add 170 nursing home beds to its 110-bed facility, at an
<br />estimated cost of $2.9 million, excluding financing.
<br /> 6 p.m.-Inver Grove Care Center, 4700 S. Robert Trail,
<br />Inver Grove Heights; certificate-of-need request to add 70
<br />nursing home beds to its 76-bed facility, at an estimated cost
<br />of $1.3 million, excluding financing.
<br /> Metropolitan Council and Metropolitan Health Planning
<br />Board--March 2, Council offices, Room E.
<br /> 7 p.m.-Joint hearing to consider the 1983 plan for imple-
<br />menting regional health care, and the 1983-1984 grant applica-
<br />tion to renew the Council's and board's designation as the
<br />regional health systems agency. For a free copy of the draft
<br />plan (pub. no. 18-83q305) and grant application, call 291-6464.
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<br />NEW APPOINTMENTS
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<br /> The Metropolitan Council has appointed a new 16-member
<br />Water Quality Management Advisory Committee chaired by
<br />Alison Fuhr of Edina.
<br /> The committee, named in December, will continue helping
<br />the Council implement its 1982 Surface Water Management
<br />Plan. The plan presents a region-wide approach to managing
<br />snowmelt and storm water runoff that cause flooding, erosion
<br />and poor water quality in the Region's lakes and streams.
<br />· The members are Virginia Harris and David Cochran, both
<br />from Excelsior; Jon Christensen, Coon Rapids; Allen Moe,
<br />Hastings, Roger Peterson, Cottage Grove; John Wells and Dale
<br />Trippler, St. Paul; James Weninger, Prior Lake; Mervyn
<br />Mindess, Golden Valley; Patricia Schwartz. Belle Plaine; Terry
<br />Korupp, Edina; Steve Casey, Eagan; William Downing, Falcon
<br />Heights; Phyllis Letendre,.Woodbury; and Dudley Russell and
<br />Christine Olsenius, Wayzata.
<br />The Council also made the following appointments.
<br />Advisory Committee on Aging: Amelia Flocken, Minne-
<br />apolis; Etta Furlow, St. Paul; and it reappointed William
<br />Meyer, laver Grove Heights.
<br /> Expanded Metropolitan Waste Management Advisory
<br />Committee: James Elling, Andover.
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<br />STATE TO REPLACE FEDERAL 'A-95'
<br />GRANT REVIEW PROCESS
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<br /> The State Department of Energy, Planning and Develop-
<br />ment's Office of Local Government is drafting "the skeleton
<br />of a review process" to replace the current federal A-95 review
<br />procedure for proposed federal grants, which expires Apri! 30,
<br />according to Tom Harren, A-95 coordinator.
<br /> The state draft will be sent to local government and county
<br />associations, regional development commissions and Metro-
<br />politan Council "so they can put the meat on it," Harren said.
<br /> President Reagan's executive order abolishing A-95 reviews,
<br />issued last summer, allows each state to establish its own
<br />review process.
<br /> In addition, the Council is preparing comments on proposed
<br />federal rules, published recently in the Federal Register, for
<br />establishing a state review process. Deadline for comments to
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