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• • FINAL — 11/6/06 (11/14/06) tnw (10) day prior to the meeting at which the proposed amendment will be considered. These rules and regulations shall be submitted to the Members for their review. Members shall submit their comments to the Board within 45 days. These rules and regulations, after adoption, shall be recorded in the VLAWMO policy book. Subdivision 2. Watershed Management Plan (Water Plan). The Board shall adopt the water management plan, as required by the Act. The Plan shall be subject to the appropriate governmental unit review as required by the Act. Subdivision 3. Data. The Board, in order to give effect to the purposes of the Act may: 1) Acquire and record appropriate data within the Area, and 2) Establish and maintain devices for acquiring and recording hydrological or other data within the Vadnais Lake Area Watershed. Subdivision 4. Local Studies. Each Member and local governmental unit reserves the right to conduct separate or concurrent studies on any matter under study by VLAWMO. Subdivision 5. Transfer of Drainage System. VLAWMO shall have the authority of a watershed district under section M.S. Chapter 103B to accept the transfer of drainage systems in the watershed, to repair, improve, and maintain the transferred drainage systems, and to construct all new drainage systems and improvements of existing drainage systems in the watershed, provided that projects may be carried out under the powers granted in M.S. Chapter 103B and that proceedings of the Board with respect to the systems must be in conformance with the watershed plan adopted under M.S. Chapters 103A — 103H. Subdivision 6. Works of Improvement. Each Member agrees to contribute its proportionate share of all approved capital improvement expenditures, which includes engineering, planning, legal and administrative cost, as determined based on the benefit to be received by each Member or other entity from the improvement or management project. The Board shall submit in writing a statement to each Member or other entity, setting forth in detail the expenses incurred by VLAWMO for each project. Capital improvement projects that may be needed under the Act may be initiated either by (1) recommendation of the VLAWMO Board to the governmental unit(s) affected or, (2) petition to the Board by the affected governmental unit. In either case and after study, and approval by two - thirds (2/3) of the Directors, the Board shall provide the affected governmental unit with a recommendation including the total estimated cost and description of the relative extent of the benefits to be realized by those affected and the costs to be borne based on benefit. Subdivision 7. Water Conveyances. The Board may order any governmental unit to construct, clean, repair, alter, abandon, consolidate, reclaim or change the course of terminus of any ditch, drain, storm sewer, water course, natural or artificial, that affects the Vadnais Lakes Area Watershed in accordance with adopted plans. Subdivision 8. Watershed Operations. The Board may order any government unit to acquire, operate, construct or maintain darns, dikes, reservoirs and appurtenant works in accordance with adopted plans. Subdivision 9. Storm and Surface Waters. The Board shall regulate, conserve and control the use of storm and surface water within the Vadnais Lakes Area Watershed pursuant to its adopted plan.