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•1 Individual Lobbying Efforts to be Directed Towards Federal and State 2 Senators and Representatives 3 Mr. Childs indicated he believed individual Council discussions with 4 the above would be far more effective than continued staff efforts 5 towards the following goals: 6 1 . acceleration of the carbon plant timetable at both federal 7 and state levels; 8 2 . efforts to push the new staff at MPCA to move ahead, as 9 agreed to by their predecessors last fall, with 10 the plant design without waiting for the results of testing 11 related to the operation and maintenance of the plant once 12 it' s in operation; 13 3 . state and federal pressures to get the Army to admit respon- 14 sibility and to take action which would automatically speed 15 up the MPCA study. 16 The Manager indicated he perceived staff had a handle on the carbon 17 levels data but needed Congressman Sikorski ' s expertise when dealing 18 with the environmental technicalities and Congressman Sabo' s position 19 on the House Appropriations Committee could be utilized to overcome 20 the Defense Department ' s stalling tactics. 1 Marks suggested state legislators Marty and Rose might be invited to a 2 future Council meeting but perceived he would have to be able to 23 specifically tell Senator Marty just what the Council wanted him to do 24 when the Councilmember met with him. 25 It was agreed that the party in honor of Congressman Sabo' s birthday 26 Sunday night might give the Councilmembers the opportunity to present 27 their cases to the legislator. 28 Mr. Childs indicated he had decided to delay ordering the RCM study 29 until after next Mondav after he and Mayor Sundland had met that 30 morning with Mr. Wong of the EPA, representatives of the MPCA, CDM and 31 Liesch and Associates, as well as and Mr. McDonald of Briggs and 32 Morgan. 33 Mayor Sundland indicated he had perceived Mr. Wong had been quite 34 impressed with the call he had gotten from Congressman Sikorski ' s 35 office protesting the delays in getting the City' s water filtration 36 plant installed. He said he agreed with Mr. Childs ' perception that 37 individual conversations and not letters seeking legislative 38 assistance would be more effective and also knew how important it 39 would be for each Councilmember to be specifically schooled by staff 40 as to what the problems were and what action was being sought. 41 Respectfully submitted, �2 Helen Crowe, Secretary 2