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- 2 - hard to determine exactly what is going to be approved until the actual document is signed. Apparently, this situation is not any different from others. Improvements are continuing to be made at the treatment plant. For example, Step II for additional secondary treatment has been approved by the MWCC and expected to be completed by July 1, 1981. Grants for other Step II rehab projects are also being actively pursued. The concern remains by~PCA as to whether or not the Council will have the resources to do everything that is needed and described in the 201 facilities plan in light of the financial drain, particularly of available federal dollars, that will be created by the needed expansions of the Metro Treatment Plant. TIMING OF THE MINNEAPOLIS EAST INTERCEPTOR Another facility which is taking on an increasingly important role is the timing of the Minneapolis East Interceptor. This interceptor, which is basically coming out of the 201 and CSO facility planning process, is needed in order to provide additional capacity from flows originating in the northeastern suburban communities. Continued development in this area will tax available capacity and compound an existing problem of periodic dry weather overflow into the Mississippi River. In order to eliminate these kinds of discharges, it appears that the Minneapolis East Interceptor will be needed sometime in 1985 or 1986. However,similar to' the relationship of the Metropo- litan Treatment Plant to the CAB, this is another facility that will either have to be programmed or pretty much underway at the time the CAB facility would be completed assuming, of course, that PCA concurs with this position. The facility appears to be grant-eligible, although that still remains to be pursued with PCA, and is estimated to cost approximately $35 million (1979 dollars). 4. CONSTRUCTION OF THE ~;OK~ INTERCEPTOR The plans and specifications for the Anoka interceptor were originally scheduled to be forwarded to the MWCC in December. It appears that due to design problems with lift stations, that the submittal will be delayed several weeks and will not be submitted until January. The Commission staff, however, will expedite the review to allow for approval by the MWCC in the latter part of January so that the project may go to bid in February. Once the bid is received and accepted, then the MWCC will have an accurate cost figure, and then go back to the Metropolitan Council and request an amendment to the 1981 budget to allow for the difference if needed from what has been in the budget and the bid costs. The MWCC anticipates letting of the contract in March, with spring construction to start in April. The total construction