<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>treatment works and interceptors reserved capacity costs;amending Minnesota <br/>
<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>Statutes 2008, section 473.517, subdivision 3.<br/>
<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:<br/>
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<a id="bill.0.1.0"></a><a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>    Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2008, section 473.517, subdivision 3, is amended to read:<br/>
<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>    Subd. 3. <b>Allocation of treatment, interceptor costs; reserved capacity.</b> (a) <br/>
<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>In preparing each budget the council shall estimate the current costs of acquisition, <br/>
<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>betterment, and debt service, only, of the treatment works in the metropolitan disposal <br/>
<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>system which will not be used to total capacity during the budget year, and the percentage <br/>
<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>of such capacity which will not be used, and shall deduct the same percentage of such <br/>
<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>treatment works costs from the current costs allocated under subdivision 1. The council <br/>
<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>shall also estimate the current costs of acquisition, betterment, and debt service, only, of <br/>
<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>the interceptors in the metropolitan disposal system that will not be used to total capacity <br/>
<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>during the budget year, shall estimate the percentage of the total capacity that will not be <br/>
<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>used, and shall deduct the same percentage of interceptor costs from the current costs <br/>
<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>allocated under subdivision 1. The total amount so deducted with respect to all treatment <br/>
<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>works and interceptors in the system shall be allocated among and paid by the respective <br/>
<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>local government units in the metropolitan area for which system capacity unused each <br/>
<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>year is reserved for future use, in proportion to the amounts of such capacity reserved for <br/>
<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>each of them. through a metropolitan sewer availability charge for each new connection <br/>
<a id="pl.1.22"></a><var>1.22</var>or increase in capacity demand to the metropolitan disposal system within each local <br/>
<a id="pl.1.23"></a><var>1.23</var>government unit. Amounts collected through the metropolitan sewer availability charge <br/>
<a id="pl.1.24"></a><var>1.24</var>(SAC) must be deposited in the council's wastewater reserve capacity fund.  Each fiscal <br/>
<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>year an amount from the wastewater reserve capacity fund shall be transferred to the <br/>
<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>wastewater operating fund for the reserved capacity costs described in this paragraph. For <br/>
<a id="pl.2.3"></a><var>2.3</var>the purposes of this subdivision, the amount transferred from the wastewater reserve <br/>
<a id="pl.2.4"></a><var>2.4</var>capacity fund to the wastewater operating fund shall be referred to as the "SAC transfer <br/>
<a id="pl.2.5"></a><var>2.5</var>amount."<br/>
<a id="pl.2.6"></a><var>2.6</var>(b) If, after appropriate study and a public hearing, the council determines for the <br/>
<a id="pl.2.7"></a><var>2.7</var>next fiscal year that a reduction of the SAC transfer amount is necessary or desirable to <br/>
<a id="pl.2.8"></a><var>2.8</var>ensure adequate funds remain in the wastewater reserve capacity fund, based on a goal <br/>
<a id="pl.2.9"></a><var>2.9</var>of maintaining at least the next year's estimated SAC transfer amount in the wastewater <br/>
<a id="pl.2.10"></a><var>2.10</var>reserve capacity fund, the council may reduce the SAC transfer amount for that fiscal year. <br/>
<a id="pl.2.11"></a><var>2.11</var>If the council reduces the SAC transfer amount for the next fiscal year, the council must <br/>
<a id="pl.2.12"></a><var>2.12</var>then increase the metropolitan sewer availability charge not less than the greater of six <br/>
<a id="pl.2.13"></a><var>2.13</var>percent or the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the metropolitan <br/>
<a id="pl.2.14"></a><var>2.14</var>region for the previous year plus three percentage points. For the purposes of this <br/>
<a id="pl.2.15"></a><var>2.15</var>subdivision, any reduction in the SAC transfer amount shall be referred to as the "SAC <br/>
<a id="pl.2.16"></a><var>2.16</var>transfer deficit." The provisions of this paragraph expire at the end of calendar year 2015.<br/>
<a id="pl.2.17"></a><var>2.17</var>(c) The council will record on a cumulative basis the total SAC transfer deficit. In <br/>
<a id="pl.2.18"></a><var>2.18</var>any year that the wastewater reserve capacity fund has a year-end balance of at least two <br/>
<a id="pl.2.19"></a><var>2.19</var>years' estimated SAC transfer amount, the council shall increase the subsequent annual <br/>
<a id="pl.2.20"></a><var>2.20</var>SAC transfer amount in excess of the amount required by paragraph (a) with the goal <br/>
<a id="pl.2.21"></a><var>2.21</var>of eliminating the cumulative total SAC transfer deficit. The annual amount by which <br/>
<a id="pl.2.22"></a><var>2.22</var>the council increases the SAC transfer amount shall be determined by the council after <br/>
<a id="pl.2.23"></a><var>2.23</var>appropriate study and a public hearing.<br/>
<a id="pl.2.24"></a><var>2.24</var><b>EFFECTIVE DATE.</b>This section is effective the day following final enactment <br/>
<a id="pl.2.25"></a><var>2.25</var>and applies in the counties of Anoka, Carver, Dakota, Hennepin, Ramsey, Scott, and <br/>
<a id="pl.2.26"></a><var>2.26</var>Washington.<br/>