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' :pater BIIIIBoard the state. Local water plans and interagency prioritization of water quality issues and needs will be better served with this new basin management approach. If you have questions, please call Patty Burke, Water Quality Division manager at (612) 296-7202, (612) 282-5332 (TTY), or 1-800-657-3864 (voice or TTY). unty r ourc r r ed to n ` l nt control conference County water planners, soil and water con- servation district (SWCD) personnel and watershed district managers and staff are invited to attend "Sediment Control Solutions for the Minnesota River." Two day-long sessions are scheduled: Feb. 21 at the Garden Inn, Mankato; and Feb. 22 at the Royal Inn, Montevideo. At the conference, natural resource manag- ers will join extension educators and agricul- turists to form county teams. Your team will get a chance to hear detailed information on the sediment problem; team about and re- spond to the University's new regional con- servation tillage guidelines for the Minnesota River basin; and start developing sediment- reduction strategies that make sense for the innesota River and your district or county. SWCD managers are asked to bring along two active farmers-preferably, but not neces- sarily, SWCD su rvisors-and to coordinate with extension educators and Natural Re- source Conservation Service ff to ensure good representation for your county. Confer- ence brochures and registration information are being distributed to SWCDs, county offices and watershed districts in the Minne- sota River basin. For more information, contact Mark Stenzel, program director, Extension Special Pro- grams, 1-800-367-5363; John Moncrief, U of M Soil Science Department, (612) 625-2771; or Norman Senjem, MPCA, (612) 296-9262. I r Minnesota Geological ... onty and r Tonal round- water pin The 1989 Groundwater Protection Act pro- vided funds to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), and through the DNR to the Minnesota Geological Surrey (MGS), for a base level county geologic atlas program and for a new mufti-county regional hydrogeologic assessment mapping effort. The Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCMR) recommended accelera- tion of this mapping program with funding from the Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund for the 1992-1993 and 1994-1995 biennia. The LCMR is not recommending funding for this program for the 1996-1997 biennium. They have instead recommended that the program be augmented by an in- creased appropriation from the General Fund. County Geologic Atlases are detailed geo- logic, hydrogeologic, and interpretive. maps designed to assist local decision-making. Regional hydrogeologic assessments are less detailed evaluations of the near surface 8