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DATE: Mareh 29, 197302 °°)

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SUBJECT: Greater Vancouver Regional District Meeting - March 28th

Municival Relations

Thirteen of the fourteen municipalities and all three of the Electoral Areas

that make up the G.V.R.D. have voted in favour of the District assuming municipal

labour relations as a function.

In view
Municipal Affairs for Supplementary Letters Patent to authorize

of this the Board has submitted an application to the Department of
the District to

undertake the function.

Cascade Pipeline Proposal

The coal pipeline corridor proposal, which has been under review since 1971, has

been re-examined in regard to the proposal of the Company to locate it within the

B.C. Hydro right-of-way extending from Colebrook eastward through the Lower Fraser

Valley. It would parallel the Roberts Bank rail line; the remaining distance to

the Roberts Bank port. The Board has solicited comments from the Municipalities

Delta and the Technical Planning Committee. All three have objected to
to a location before all studies and information on

of Surrey,
giving approval-in-principle!
environmental effects and terminal facilities are available.
The Regional Board will inform the Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources

and the Minister of Commercial Transport that it is epposed to the construction of

a coal pipeline in the Lower Mainland without full information on environmental

impact and on proposed remedial measures.

For Floodplain and Floodproofing Policies

The recommendations of the Planning Committee in regard to the above (Tabled at

the November, 1972, meeting) were reviewed by the Board at its March 7th meeting

and referred to the Planning Committee for updating prior to reconsideration by the

Regional Board,
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