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Work Elements for the Plan The contractor will: 1. Accumulate documentation on overlapping authorities. 2. Review and evaluate formal and informal communications processes to determine if improvements are possible. 3. Evaluate the need and make recommendations concerning a more formal relationship between the agencies most active in managing the lake's water surface. Institutional Arrangeents Definition: This includes the analysis of the existing structure of the LMCD, its powers and authorities and membership and how that entity re- lates to higher and lower authorities as well as the power neces- sary to adopt, implement and enforce the plan. Backgroand: The LMCD has prepared a legislative package to be presented to the next legisla- ture to make certain changes in its authority and scope of interests. The two Task Forces have recommended that this issue be investigated. Presently, the LMCD has authority over the lake surface and docks along the shoreline. That authority is shared by largely overlapping programs by the DNR. The Watershed District and the DNR have permitting authority over con- struction in the lake and developments affecting the lake. The LMCD, Water Patrol, Hennepin Parka, Metropolitan Council and ONE have all collected recre- ational use data. Presently, the municipalities have sole authority over developments on land, un- less there is construction in the water. LMCD has only the power to recommend a course of action to the local authority. Sw a municipalities have passed ordinances that duplicate, or nearly duplicate, LMr,D and Watershed District rules and regulations. Others have passed few, if any. Accordingly, there are differing levels :f protection of lake nei lake- ahnre renuurce.. Various parties hale recommended changes to the existing institutional arrange- �aents. Some increase LMCn power; others decrease it. Some decrease the power ,t the DNg; no one has suggested increasing it. A range of changes have been propvsai and ne.d consideration and evaluation. tanue9 llentitied 1. There is considerable overlap between agencies active on the lake. Rome iatormant, feel that the most appropriate regional body for an - shore iasucs is the Watershed nistrict. Fewer felt that the LMCn Ino I ha vo so.no to it it over un-shore development. 74