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08/29/00 16:50 FAX 651 602 1674 PLNG GROWTH 141002 ~.~~~~~!~n~a~~g~~i~'hlrP Environmental Services Internal Memorandum DATE: August 29, 2000 TO: Eli Cooper, Ciara Schlicting CC: Helen Boyer, Keith Buttleman, Jim Larsen, Jack Frost FROM: Marcel Jouseau and Judy Sventek SUBJECT: City of Ramsey Ramsey has submitted a local comprehensive plan, which contains no management program for on-site sewage treatment systems. At issue is EPE staffs finding that the plan is incomplete for review. The follOWIng is the basis for EPE staffs finding. It should be noted that the local plail is also incomplete because it lacks a stormwater management plan. The Metropolitan Council's Regional Blueprint states: Local Managemerit programs for on-site sewage disposal systems, except in the commercial agricultural area, shall implement the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency's standards for on-site sewage disposal systems (Minnesota Rule 7080) or equivalent, supplemented by the Council'~ standards for density of development, location, two disposal drainfields (primary and replacement), installation and maintenance and ongoing monitoring of on-site disposal systems as compiled in the Council's Water Resources Management Policy Plan and in this Blueprint... The Council will require all communities to certify that they have met these standards prior to approval of local comprehensive plan amendments or making favorable recommendations in project reviews. The Local Planning Handbook requires areas not served by the Regional Wastewater Treatment System to include in their comprehensive plan updates a description oIthe community's management program for on-site sewage treatment to comply with MPCA 7080, and a copy of the community's current on-site ordinance. MPCA 7080.0305, subp. 4, subpart 2 requires local ordinances to include a provision that requires all design, installation, alteration, repair, maintenance, pumping, and inspection