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Resolution approving and authorizing the Mayor, the Director of the Department of Finance, and the Director of the Department of Public Works, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, to enter into an agreement or agreements with the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority (“ALCOSAN”) to provide permanent easements for subterranean tunnels through nine (9) parcels of City-owned properties, currently identified as Allegheny County Parcel ID Nos. 44-S-230; 7-A-195; 7-M-110-9; 7-F-107; 8-B-150; 8-G-250; 8-D-15; 7-L-31; and 7-P-200, and to accept payment therefor in the amount of Eight Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($8,200).
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WHEREAS, ALCOSAN is authorized and empowered by Subsections (d)(4), (5) and (15) of Section 5607 of the Municipality Authorities Act of June 19, 2001, P.L. 287, No. 22, 53 Pa.C.S. §§ 5601-5622, to hold or acquire by lease, purchase or condemnation any lands, rights, easements, franchises and other property, whether real, personal or mixed, deemed necessary or desirable for carrying out its purposes, including, without limitation, to construct, improve, maintain, repair and operate projects; and
WHEREAS, in January 2008, ALCOSAN entered into, and remains subject to, a Consent Decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the Allegheny County Health Department, as amended, that requires, among other things, improvements to its sanitary sewer system, specifically including infrastructure improvements in the form of a new regional tunnel system, with tunnel segments along the Ohio, Allegheny, and Monongahela Rivers approximately 150 feet below the surface, in order to reduce combined sewer flows by separating stormwater runoff from the sanitary sewer system (the “Tunnel Project”); and
WHEREAS, the completion of the Tunnel Project, specifically the completion of tunnel segments along the Ohio River, requires the acquisition of subterranean easements, as shown on the plans attached as Exhibit A hereto, through nine (9) parcels of real property situated in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, currently identified as Allegheny County Parcel ID Nos. 44-S-230; 7-A-195; 7-M-110-9; 7-F-107; 8-B-150; 8-G-250; 8-D-15; 7-L-31; and 7-P-200, (the “Property”), which Property belongs to the City of Pittsburgh; and
WHEREAS, to support the Tunnel Project, the City of Pittsburgh is willing to grant the subterranean easements requested by ALCOSAN in exchange for payment in the amount of Eight Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($8,200).
Be it resolved by the Council of the City of Pittsburgh as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor, the Director of Finance, and the Director of Public Works, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh, are authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements with ALCOSAN to provide permanent easements for a subterranean tunnel through nine (9) parcels of City-owned properties, currently identified as Allegheny County Parcel ID Nos. 44-S-230; 7-A-195; 7-M-110-9; 7-F-107; 8-B-150; 8-G-250; 8-D-15; 7-L-31; and 7-P-200, and to accept payment therefor in the amount of Eight Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($8,200).
Section 2. The authorized agreements shall be approved by the City Solicitor as to form and substance.
Section 3. The “Easements” and “Easement Areas” are depicted on the plans attached hereto as Exhibit A.
EXHIBIT A
PLANS DEPICTING EASEMENTS AND EASEMENT AREAS.