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Second, the .Department.Of Environmental Quality~uidelines recommend that sewer'treatment facilities should be planned and.'~. constructed for ~ 20-~ear pOpulation projection period. The plgnninghorizon in the amendments is appropriate for the nature ofthe planned facilities. Sewer treatment facilities should be constructed with long range planning goals. 3. The. proposed PFSP amendments are a pro~ect list as required by state statutes and implementing regulations. Home Builders .insists that the proposed PFSP amendments, particularly the proposed new tables, are not a ~project list" within the meaning of state statutes and regulations. Home Builders argument is without merit. The proposed_ sanitary seWer project list is comparable to the.exiSting project lists in the PESP by Springfield Utility Board, EWEB and the other participating jurisidictions' lists. The proposed list'also 'complies with the LCDC's Goal 11 implementing administrative rules. OAR 660-001-0005(6) defines ~public facility project" as follows': ~A public facility project is the construction or reconstruction of a water, sewer, or transportation facility within a public facility/system that is funded or utilized by members'of the public.." Public facility system, as it relate~ to sanitary sewers, are limited to the following: a) treatment facility system; and/or b) primary collection system. (OAR 660-011-0005(7)). · ' ProPosed Table 16a lists six treatment 'facility system projects: WPCF Treatment Project; Residual Treatment Project; and Beneficial ReuseProject. It also includes three pump stations (i.e., collection, system projects): Willakenzie Pump Station, Screw Pump Station and Glenwood Pump Station. This list complies with both the statute and the administrative rule definition of ~project list." In their oral testimony Home Builders stated that a more appropriate list of projects for PFSP purposes would be MWMC's 20-year project list that is included in MWMC's 2004 Facilities Plan. MWMC adopted the 2004 Facilities Plan and 20-year project list to satisfy DEQ requirements for facilities planning and to .comply with the requirements of ORS 223.309(1) that a facilities plan and list of proposed capital improvements be adopted prior to the establishment of a system development charge.