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WATER QUALITY W/12/79 Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.05, Sub- division 5, if: The interceptor eliminates the need for a treatment works not existing on January 1, 1970, that could have been constructed consistent with Minnesota Pollution Con- trol Agency and Metropolitan Development Guide standards in effect when the decision is made to construct the interceptor, or eliminates the need for a treatment works existing on January 1, 1970, or improve- merits to it; and The decision to build the interceptor was or is made to protect or improve a water resource of metropolitan significance. The term "water resource of metropolitan significance" shall include any lake or any- portion of a major river used as a source of municipal water supply or designated by the Metropolitan Council as a water area to be protected. Once an interceptor has been determined to be of metropolitan benefit, the costs eligible for allocation under the metropolitan benefit provision shall be those current costs incurred after December 31, 1971. When the Council makes a determination of metropolitan benefit, the Commission shall compute the amount of current costs allocat- able thereto in preparing its budget year. The amount of current costs allocated to a service area in such year is the amount of current costs that would have been allocated to the service area if the lowest cost disposal system alternative had been retained, selected or constructed consistent with Paragraph 1. Metropolitan Council Procedure No. 9. Bond Issues Additional debt service of new offerings should be kept to the amount necessary to amortize the issue over 30 years or less, with even annual combined payments of principal and interest. 2. New debt service should be correlated with outstanding debt to provide a uniform annual debt service budget and to permit reduction of the term of new offerings by use of the "drop- off" of retired issues. The right of redemption should be reserved to the fullest practical extent, and call premiums should be discouraged. Subsequent issues should be correlated to the necessary-capital programs to provide for a quarterly issuance and should be combined accordingly. Any Council agency fiscal demands may be combined in subsequent issues to provide fo'r flexibility within the programs. Metropolitan Council Procedure No. 10. Local Comprehensive Sewer Policy Plan General Discussion The 1976 Metropolitan Land Planning Act, Section 473.859, Subdivision 3, Paragraph (b), requires local governments to prepare a public facility plan, and in particular a sewer policy plan. The requirement of this act is similar to that of the 1969 Metropolitan Sewer Act (Minnesota Statutes, Section 473.503), which requires local governments to submit comprehensive sewer plans describing sewerage service needs from the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission'. The 1974 Metropolitan Beorganization Act (Laws 1974, Chapter 422) requires the Council to adopt a Waste Management (sewerage) Policy Plan. The Council's Development Guide Policy Plan on Water Quality Management, adopted March 9, 1979, serves as the Waste Management Policy Plan required under this act. The following adopted procedure allows the Council and the Commission to coordinate their review requirements for these two sewer plans. The local sewer policy plan and amendments to this local plan are to be submitted to the Metro- politan Council as part of the comprehensive plan for review and comment. After the Council's revie.w and recommendations, with or without comments, the local government is to submit the adopted comprehensive sewer policy plan portions of the comprehensive plan to the Commission for