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HED-20 IMPAIRED WATERS <br />Minnesota’s green jobs policies, strategies and investments need to lead to high quality <br />jobs with good wages and benefits, meeting current wage and labor laws. <br />Local units of government should not bear undue cost burdens associated with <br />completed TMDL reports. As recent Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) reports show, <br />non-point agricultural sources are producing more runoff pollution than urban areas at <br />a rate of 13:1. Cities must not be required as primary entities for funding the clean-up <br />and protection of state and regional water resources. Benefits of efforts must be <br />proportional to the costs incurred and agricultural sources must be held responsible for <br />their share of costs. <br />Metro Cities supports continued development of the metropolitan area in a manner that <br />is responsive to the market but is cognizant of the need to protect the water resources <br />of the state and metropolitan area. Since all types of properties are required to pay <br />storm water fees, Metro Cities opposes entity-specific exemptions from these fees. <br />Metro Cities supports the goals of the Clean Water Act and efforts at both the federal <br />and state level to implement it. <br />Metro Cities supports continued funding of the framework established to improve the <br />region’s ability to respond to market demands for development and redevelopment, <br />including dedicated funding for surface water impairment assessments, TMDL <br />development, storm water construction grants and wastewater construction grants. <br />59