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File #: 2019-1958    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 8/23/2019 In control: Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
On agenda: 8/27/2019 Final action: 9/10/2019
Enactment date: 9/10/2019 Enactment #: 559
Effective date: 9/12/2019    
Title: Resolution adopting the Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh's Official Sewage Facilities Plan for the A.J. Palumbo Center Addition project which will involve major interior renovations and the building footprint enlargement. The building address is 1304 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh 15219, in the 1st Ward.
Indexes: SEWAGE FACILITIES PLAN
Attachments: 1. 2019-1958-Sewer Module Packet - A.J. Palumbo Center, 2. 2019-1958-Sewer Module Questionnaire for Council - A.J. Palumbo Center, 3. Summary 2019-1958

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Resolution adopting the Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan for the A.J. Palumbo Center Addition project which will involve major interior renovations and the building footprint enlargement. The building address is 1304 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh 15219, in the 1st Ward.

 

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WHEREAS, SECTION 5 of the Act of January 24, 1966, P.L. 1535, No. 537, known as the "Pennsylvania Sewage Facilities Act," as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (the “Department”) adopted thereunder, Chapter 71 of Title 25 of the Pennsylvania Code, requires the City of Pittsburgh to adopt an Official Sewage Facilities Plan (the “Official Plan”) providing for sewage services adequate to prevent contamination of waters of the Commonwealth and/or environmental health hazards from sewage wastes, and to revise said plan whenever it is necessary to determine whether a proposed method of sewage disposal for a new development conforms to a comprehensive program of pollution control and water quality management; and

 

WHEREAS, Duquesne University has proposed the project identified as A.J. Palumbo Center Addition, located at 1304 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh 15219, Allegheny County, Lot & Block # 2-L-108, in the 1st Ward of the City of Pittsburgh and described in the attached Sewage Facilities Planning Module (the "Planning Module") for land development and proposes that project be served by sewer tap-ins to the City of Pittsburgh sewage systems; and

 

WHEREAS, the Pittsburgh Water Sewer Authority, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, and the City of Pittsburgh Planning Department have reviewed the respective components of the attached Planning Module in regard to each authority/department’s expertise and have approved the respective components as explained in the attached Planning Module. 

 

WHEREAS, based upon the approval of the above authorities and departments, the City of Pittsburgh finds that the project described in the attached Planning Module for land development conforms to applicable zoning, subdivision, other municipal ordinances and plans, and to a comprehensive program of pollution control and water quality management.

 

 

Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:

 

Section 1.                     The City of Pittsburgh hereby adopts and submits to the Department of Environmental Protection for its approval as a Plan Revision to the City of Pittsburgh’s Official Sewage Facilities Plan, the above-referenced Planning Module for land development, which is attached hereto as Exhibit A.

 

Said Planning Module includes the A.J. Palumbo Center Addition project, located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Forbes Avenue with Magee Street. The address being 1304 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15219, Allegheny County, Lot & Block # 2-L-108, in the 1st Ward of the City of Pittsburgh.

 

Finally, that any Ordinance or Resolution or part thereof conflicting with the provisions of this Resolution, is hereby repealed so far as the same affects this Resolution.