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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 ease...
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