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.. " certified by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and licensed by the city or county to promote uniformity and a higher degree of environmental protection. The city has with this submission presented a summary of the policies and strategies it has in place to prevent and. reduce excess levels of inflow and infiltration in its local sanitary sewer system. In additiont the city has presented a summary of the circumstances under which private or community treatment systems (for examplet package treatment plantst community drain fields) will be allowed to be located in its rural area. The Metropolitan Waste Control Commissiont now identified as the Councirs Office of Wastewater Servicest indicated in its March 23t 1994 review letter concerning this amendment that the city will now need to update its Tier II Comprehensive Sewer Plan. Surface Water Management The city has adopted the Councirs interim strategy to reduce non point source pollution to all metropolitan water bodies and proposes to amend its land use controls and local stormwater management plan by January 1t 1995 to contain strategy guidelines. Transportation Planning-Highways (Carl Ohm) Ramsey is served by TH 10 and TH 169t both highly congested metropolitan highways. The highly congested segment of TH 169 starts in the city of Anoka and continues south. The congested segment of TH 10 is in Spring Lake Park and Mounds View. An analysis completed by Anoka County in 1990 as part of the Countyts transportation plan indicated that after completion of construction underway and planned on TH 10 a congestion problem would occur sometime before 2010. Since the expansion of the MUSA in Ramsey will result in added traffic on both TH 169 and TH lOt the Council required an analysis of this problem prior to approving further MUSA expansions in Ramsey and other Anoka County communities. The Council Transportation Policy Plant policy 12 and strategies A and Dt with specific relevance to this issue are: ' Policy 12 - The Metropolitan Council will work with the Minnesota Department of Transportation and local units of government to ensure the metropolitan highway system and its supporting road system are built and designed to adequately serve travel demand to the extent possiblet to provide for the safety of users and to minimize negative impacts on the environment. Strategy A - State and local units of government shall provide an adequate minor arterial roadway system in the region. Discussion: the Metropolitan highway system is intended to serve the longer trips in the region. The minor arterial system serves shorter trips that mayor may not be local in nature. Where a sufficient minor arterial system does not existt either are made on the metropolitan highway system or on a collector and local streets. In either case, such use is inappropriate. 8