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Resolution authorizing the Mayor, the Director of Finance, and the Director of Public Works to enter into an easement agreement or agreements with the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority ("ALCOSAN") for certain work to be performed on three City-owned parcels, being identified by the Allegheny County Department of Real Estate as 9-E-200-9 (RIVER ALY, PITTSBURGH, PA 15212, COUNCIL DISTRICT 1), 7-L-31 (BEAVER AVE, PITTSBURGH, PA 15233, COUNCIL DISTRICT 6), and 7-M-110-9 (SPROAT WAY, PITTSBURGH, PA 15233, COUNCIL DISTRICT 6), at no cost to the City, and to accept just compensation therefor.
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WHEREAS, the City ("Grantor") is the owner in fee simple of those certain parcels of real property located in the 21st and 23rd Wards of the City of Pittsburgh, County of Allegheny, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being identified as Parcel Tax ID Nos. 9-E-200-9, 7-L-31, and 7-M-110-9 (the "Properties"); and
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 t...
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