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Representative Robert L. Searles February 6, 1978 Page 2 Before the City can endorse the Orono -Long Lake interceptor as presently designed, the following question- must be answered by the ?Metropolitan Council and Metropolitan 17aste Control Commission in a method that the City can rely on: Can Orono, in restating its Comprehensive Land Use Plan, locate the MUSA line in such a way that the unseiaered portion of the City will be in the rural service area, even though the proposed Orono -Long Lake interceptor pipe itself, may have additional hydraulic capicity beyond the pumping stations presently designed to serve only that portion of Orono which will lie within the urban service area and which is presently sewered? As you know, Bob, the City submitted its Comprehensive Sewer Plan in October of 1976 and .negotiated'with the Metropolitan Council until finally reaching an agreement in March of 1977, which resultec in an acceptable Systems Statement and staff recommendation of the Comprehensive Sewer Plan in June of 1977. Since that time, the City has received no assurances from the Metropolitan Council staff �• that we will be able to locate the MUSA line in accordance with our Comprehensive Plan adopted in 1974. It seems to us that before we go to. any expense of restating our Comprehensive Plan in accordar with the Mandatory Land Planning Act,that our Comprehensive Sewer Plan should be approved and a meaningful answer to the question stated above .should be given by the Metropolitan Council. We feel - strongly that the ground rules should be agreed on before the Orono - Long Lake interceptor is -constructed so that we don't find out that tYie.game is over once the interceptor is constructed and that the fact that the interceptor -is in the ground dictates that all of rural Orono must be in the urban service area of the Metropolitan area. I am enclosing a copy of a revised drawing showing the City's location of the MUSA line as a result of our meeting of last Thursda with Bernie Harrington and (Karl B urandt. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Y u s truly Brad Van Nest Orono Mayor Enclosure cc: Otto Bonestroo, City Engineer Jim Olson, City Engineer Jim Daley, Metropolitan Council