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determined insufficient by the Commission, '1 re❑uest written clarification within an additional ten r (10) days. METHOD OF PROCEEDING Vil, Subdivision 1. The procedures to be followed by the Board in carrying out the powers and duties set forth in Article VI, Subdivisions 5, 6,7, 8, 9, and 10, shall be as set forth in this article. Subdivision 2. The Board has previously prepared the over all plan as required in Article VI, Subdivision 5. This plan shall be updated as required by state law. The Board shall proceed to implement said plan, and this implementation may be ordered by stages. Subdivision 3. No project which will channel or divert additional waters to subdistrict and subtrunks which cross municipal boundaries shall be commenced by any member governmental unit prior to approval of the Board of the design of an adequate outlet or of adequate storage facilities, Subdivision 4. All construction,reconstruction,extension or maintenance of outlets for the vanous subdistrict and subtrunks, including outlets, lift stations, dams, reservoirs, or other appurtenances of a surface water or storm sewer system which involve construction by or assessment against any member governmental unit or against privately or publicly owned land within the watershed shall follow the statutory P p procedures outlined in Chapter 429 of the Minnesota Statutes except as herein modified. The Board shall secure from its engineers or some other competent persona report advising it in a preliminary way as to whether the proposed improvement is feasible and as to whether it shall best be made as proposed or in connection with some other improvement and the estimated cost of the improvement as recommended and the proposed allocation of costs between members. The Commission shall have authority to separate the watershed into subtrunks or subdistricts if the capital improvement project and costs only benefit a subtrunk or subdistrict area. If the Commission determines that a capital improvement and capital cost benefits only a subtrunk or subdistrict area it may so designate that said area shall be responsible for said costs and may allocate the costs to said area or areas rather than to the entire watershed. a ` The Board shall then hold a public hearing on the proposed improvement after mailed notice to the clerk of each member governmental unit within the watershed.. The Commission shall not be required to mail or publish notice except by said notice to the clerk. Said notice shall be mailed not less than 45 days before the hearing, shall state the time and place of the hearing, the general nature of the improvement, the estimated total cost and the estimated cost to each member f governmental unit. The Board may adjourn said hearing to obtain further information, may continue said hearing pending action of the member governmental units or may take such other action as it deems necessary to cagy out the purposes of this Commission. To order the improvement,in accordance with the powers and duties established in Article VI, Subdivisions 7, 8 and 9, a resolution setting forth the order for a capital improvement project 9 Page A-9