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a proposed replacement plan would have a significant adverse impact on groundwater quality, the replacement plan must be denied. Wetlands determined to be primarily recharge wetlands as a result of a functional assessment using MNRAM Version 3.0 should be evaluated for the potential to affect 18 groundwater resources. 2.1.9 High-Priority Areas for Wetland Preservation, Enhancement, & Restoration Water management plans prepared by water management organizations in the metropolitan areas under Minnesota Statutes, section 103B.231 must identify those areas that qualify as high priority 19 . These priority areas areas for wetland preservation, enhancement, restoration, and establishment shall be included in the next scheduled water management plan update. Plans should give strong consideration to identifying as high priority areas, minor watersheds having less than 50 percent of their original wetland acreages, and intact wetlands, diminished wetlands, and the areas once occupied by wetlands that have been diminished or eliminated and could feasibly be restored taking into account the present hydrology and use of the area. Plans should give strong consideration to identifying as high priority areas all type 1 or 2 wetlands, and other wetlands at risk of being lost by permanent conversion to other uses. When individual wetlands are identified as high priority for preservation and restoration, the high priority area shall include the wetland and an adjacent buffer strip not less than 16.5 feet wide around the perimeter of the wetland and may include up to four acres of upland for each wetland acre. Plans may identify additional high priority areas where preservation, enhancement, restoration, and establishment of wetlands would have high public value by providing benefits for water quality, flood water retention, public recreation, commercial use, and other public uses. High priority areas should be delineated by minor or major watershed. 2.1.10 State and Federal Designated Scenic and Wild Rivers The rules for the protection of state designated scenic and wild rivers is set forth in Minnesota Rules 20 Chapter 6105 as administered by the MnDNR. Wild rivers are defined as those that exist in a free- flowing state with excellent water quality and with adjacent lands that are essentially primitive and scenic rivers are defined as those that exist in a free-flowing state with adjacent lands that are essentially primitive. Management plans must be developed before a river can be included in the wild and scenic river system. The plans must give emphasis to the preservation and protection of the area’s scenic, recreational, natural, historic, and similar values while placing no unreasonable restrictions upon compatible, preexisting, economic uses of particular tracts of land. 18 Evaluate according to the guidelines in: Criteria and Guidelines for Assessing Geologic Sensitivity of Ground Water Resources in Minnesota (MnDNR, 1991). 19 Minnesota Rules 8420.0350, Subp. 2 20 The state rules can be accessed at: www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/arule/6105/. Management Classification 15