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/ Owl OC-T up. lF L ' �� 1 5 Y Y -f%ru-k-s -Z S7 f C. Combinpd Sewer verflow. Mr. Purdue reported on the status of permitting for Minneapolis, St. Paul and South St. Paul to discharge untreated sewage into the Mississippi from combined s wer overfiow. He distributed a "whits paper" issued October 17th by the Metropolitan Council. A copy is attached. The paper proposes a state construction fund of approximately $50 million annually for a period of five years. Forty percent of the monev would go to th, metropolitan area and the remaining 601 would go to outstate cities for sewage treatment projects. The three cities with CSO permits would receive 50% of the funding of remedial construction from the state fund. The paper states that EPA may forbid additional sewer hook-ups thrnuch.cut the mwcc sT sy tem if a program for completion of construction by about 1991 1s not adopted ',y state government. Mr. Purdue stated his view that this sanct. •n is aimed primarily at the other cities in the metro area, and he stated that he believes they are the onl•: governmental units which may oppose a state-fundea grant to the three cities. The position paper also suggests as an alternative that EPA may mandate the method of abating CSO, and the position paper states that a method mandated by EPA might not be the method most acceptable to the metropolitan area. A general discussion of the issue followed. Mr. Thomson suggested that eliminating storm water inflow would result in increased plant capacity for sewage treatment and thus the excess cost could be considered a SAC charge. There was a consensus that it would be inequitable to stop additional hook-ups in cities which have separated sewers. There was also a consensus that those cities which have separated sewers should not now pav the cost of the separation in other communities. Mr. Spore suggested that accelerated construction could be financed by the state through a loan program, rather than throuah a grant pro- gram. Foliowing more discussion, it was moved by Spore, seconded by Boeck, that counsel be directed to inform the Met Council, other appropriate agencies, and executive and legislative branch leaders that SRA favors a state -funded loan program to accelerate ecnstruction. The motion carried unanimously. Upon suggestion by Mr. McGraw and by consensus, counsel was also directed to prepare a summary and resolution for review by member city councils.