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• RESOLUTION TO ADOPT MINOR AMENDMENTS TO THE WATERSHED MANAGEMENT PLAN WHEREAS, the Rice Creek Watershed District (District) has proposed minor amendments to its Watershed Management Plan (Plan); WHEREAS, the proposed minor amendments have been forwarded to all required agencies, including the Metropolitan Council, Department of Health, Department of Natural Resources, Pollution Control Agency, Board of Water and Soil Resources, and local units of government for their review and comment; ' WHEREAS, the District has held a public hearing on the proposed minor amendments and has reviewed all comments received regarding them; WHEREAS, the Board of Water and Soil Resources on May 11, 1994, approved the proposed minor amendments. The Board of Water and Soil Resources found "[t]he amendments are thorough and well - thought out," and the District's responses to the comments it received from the governmental units and agencies which reviewed them acceptable; WHEREAS, such proposed amendments are minor in nature; WHEREAS, the vast majority of the Plan is unchanged, and the District has refrained from full - scale rewriting in this amendment process to minimize the extent of changes; WHEREAS, there currently is pending litigation which may affect the outcome of the Locke Lake project described in Section 7 of the Plan; because of the uncertainty of the outcome of this litigation, the District should not at this time adopt any proposed minor amendments to Section 7 of the Plan; WHEREAS, the proposed minor amendments do not amend or affect the section of the Plan's Capital Improvement Program regarding the Locke Lake capital improvement project; WHEREAS, adoption of the proposed minor amendments does not constitute a readoption of the Plan; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Rice Creek Watershed District Board of Managers adopts all of the proposed minor amendments to its Plan as approved by the Board of Water and Soil Resources, except for those proposed minor amendments to Section 7 of the Plan dealing with Locke Lake. PASSED AND ADOPTED Y BOARD OF MANAGERS. �m.G�'z Af, /9�% BY THE RICE CREEK WATERSHED DISTRICT ATTEST: Secretary ; j •