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• 0 WHEREAS, the use of this sewer pipe running through the City of Orono is needed and required to complete the Metropolitan Disposal System as set forth in Resolution No. 73-266 and the correspondence described above, there being in fact no viable alternative, and WHEREAS, this sewer pipe lying within the City of Orono meets all the criteria heretofore set forth by the Metropolitan Sewer Board and the Metropolitan Council to qualify both as a Metropolitan Interceptor and to qualify for ownership by the Metropolitan Sewer Board in that it is needed to complete the Metropolitan Disposal System, the connection with the City of Minnetonka Beach has been required by the Metropolitan Sewer Board and the Metropolitan Council, it is an approved part of both sewer plans of the Cities, it is designed for use as an interceptor sewer, it is designed to serve all of a local governmental unit, and it is an existing sanitary sewer facility, and WHEREAS, this request meets all the criteria set forth in previous legal opinions submitted to the Metropolitan Council and the Metropolitan Sewer Board by its attorneys, specifically the opinion dated May 29, 1973, wherein it is stated that an interceptor qualifies for ownership as a metropolitan facility if it is designed or used by more than one municipality, and that ownership and operation is required if the sewer is needed to implement the Metropolitan Comprehensive Sewer Plan, which matters have already been determined by the Metropolitan Sewer Board and Metropolitan Council, and WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Sewer Board and the Metropolitan Council are required by statute to assume ownership of existing interceptors designed for or serving more than one local govern- ment unit which are needed to implement the Comprehensive Sewer Plan for the Metropolitan area as stated in Section 4736.02 Subd. 1 and Section 4736, 05 Subd. 1 of the Metropolitan Sewer Act, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Orono that the Metropolitan Sewer Board assume ownership and operation of the sewer lying within the City of Orono designated on attachment "A" as a Metropolitan Interceptor pursuant to the statutory provisions governing the acquisition, ownership and operation of Metropolitan Interceptors. Approved on the 4th day of March 1974, by a vote of ayes and 0 nays. r z Obert L. Searles, Mayor Attest: