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I <br /> Exhibit 6 <br /> State Law on Cost Allocation (Minnesota Statutes 473.517) <br /> After 1997 legislative change <br /> Subdivision 1. <br /> Allocation Method.Except as provided in . • _ ' <br /> • <br /> subdivision 3t the estimated costs of operation, •. _ . . , • ; • - " - _- <br /> maintenance, and debt service of the • <br /> ' <br /> metropolitan disposal system to be paid by the t discharg� by _tters; <br /> council in each fiscal year, and the costs of <br /> acquisition and betterment of the system which • 'are to be paid during the year from funds other ' ' ' `•• , <br /> than bond proceeds,including all expenses - • •. • <br /> incurred by the council pursuant to sections <br /> 473.501 to 473.545,are referred to in this section <br /> as current costs, and e <br /> ' - Subd.3.Allocation of Treatment, <br /> g. <br /> ' • ' • •_• ' ` • • • • Interceptor Costs;Reserved Capacity. In <br /> preparing each budget the council shall estimate <br /> F total. shall be allocated among and paid by all the current costs of acquisition, betterment, and <br /> local government units which will discharge <br /> sewage. directly or indirectly, into the debt service,only, of the treatment works in the <br /> metropolitan disposal system which will not be <br /> metropolitan disposal system during the budget used to total capacity during the budget year, <br /> year according to an allocation method and the percentage of such capacity which will <br /> determined by the council. The allocated costs not be used, and shall deduct the same <br /> may include an amount for a reserve or <br /> contingency fund and an amount for cash flow <br /> percentage of such treatment works costs from <br /> the current costs allocated under subdivision 2. <br /> management. The cash flow management fund <br /> so established must not exceed The council shall also estimate the current costs <br /> five percent of of acquisition,betterment, and debt service, only, <br /> the council's total waste control operating of the interceptors in the metropolitan disposal <br /> p budaet., system that will not be used to total capacity <br /> ' during the budget year,shall estimate the <br /> .. • percentage of the total capacity that will not be <br /> • . „ , „ - .- • -• <br /> •• used,and shall deduct the same percentage of <br /> • .. •' '. interceptor costs from the current costs allocated <br /> under subdivision 2. The total amount so <br /> deducted with respect to all treatment works and <br /> .... .. - • •• •- •• interceptors in the system shall be allocated <br /> • among and paid by the respective local <br /> .. ; • , •, government units in the metropolitan area for <br /> which system capacity unused each year is <br /> : : - : •' : _ . . . ; - reserved for future use,in proportion to the <br /> unit, adjusted as follows. amounts of such capacity reserved for each of <br /> . : them. <br /> Study of 1998 Sewerage Rates <br /> 27 <br />