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File #: 2018-0605    Version: 1
Type: Resolution Status: Passed Finally
File created: 6/15/2018 In control: Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs
On agenda: 6/19/2018 Final action: 6/26/2018
Enactment date: 6/26/2018 Enactment #: 400
Effective date: 6/28/2018    
Title: Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and/or Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh ("City"), to apply to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority Green Revitalization of Our Waterways Program in order to acquire funding for certain green infrastructure elements of the I-579 Cap Project.
Indexes: AGREEMENTS
Attachments: 1. Summary 2018-0605, 2. Attachment I-579 Cap Project
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Resolution authorizing the Mayor and the Director of the Department of Public Works and/or Director of the Department of Mobility and Infrastructure, on behalf of the City of Pittsburgh ("City"), to apply to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority Green Revitalization of Our Waterways Program in order to acquire funding for certain green infrastructure elements of the I-579 Cap Project.

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WHEREAS, the City wants to participate in the construction and obtain ownership of a cover over a depressed section of State Route (SR) 579 (a/k/a Interstate 579) between Centre Avenue and Bigelow Boulevard and open green space and certain other improvements over such cover and adjacent property (the "I-579 Cap Project"); and

WHEREAS, Sports & Exhibition Authority will transfer certain funding for the I-579 Cap Project to the City pursuant to a Cooperation Agreement between City and Sports & Exhibition Authority, and City will utilize $837,000 of this funding in the I-579 Cap Project to cover the cost and expense of certain green infrastructure elements for reduction of the sewer overflow at the ALCOSAN point of connection A-12 and M-05 sewershed; and

WHEREAS, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority ("ALCOSAN") Green Revitalization of Our Waterways ("GROW") Program may provide funding support for said green infrastructure elements, and

WHEREAS, the City now wishes to submit an application to the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority ("ALCOSAN") Green Revitalization of Our Waterways ("GROW") Program for the I-579 Cap Project.

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

Section 1. the City of Pittsburgh of Allegheny County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is seeking grant funding under the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority ("ALCOSAN") Green Revitalization of Our Waterways (GROW) Program for the green infrastructure elements of the I-579 Cap Project to fund a project that proposes to reduce the sewer overflow at the ALCOSAN point of connecti...

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