88-80 Apply to EPA for Step II Grant for wastewater pretreatment prog

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ORDINANCE NO. 88-80 BY: Brown, Chinnock, Gallagher, Graham, McBride, Salmon AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to make application to the Environmental Protection Agency to amend the City's Step II Grant so as to provide for the development of an industrial wastewater pretreatment program, to accept the Step II Grant as amended, and to enter into a contract with Watermation, Incorporated to perform the additional work required by said amendment. WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City to comply wi th Public Law 92-500, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and WHEREAS, the Director of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, in a Findings and Order dated October 30, 1980, has directed the City of Lakewood to submit an approvable work plan to the Director by December 31, 1980 detailing the steps the City will take to conduct a survey of industrial users of our treatment works, an inventory of prohibited and toxic discharges into and through said treatment works, and investigations of sludge contamination and possible violations of Water Quality Standards, and WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has advised the City that additional Step II funding can be made available upon the City's application to undertake this additional work and this Council is of the opinion that ~ it is in the best interests of the City to so undertake this additional work, and WHEREAS, this ordinance constitutes an emergency measure providing for the usual daily operation of a municipal department and for the further reason that it is in the best interests of the public health, s~fety and welfare of the City to proceed with'the Step II work relating to the City's wastewater treatment facilities without delay; now, therefore, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to make application to the Environmental Protection Agency to amend the City's Step II Grant in the amount of $44,075.95 to provide for the 75% federal share of the estimated cost to develop an industrial wastewater pretreatment program as directed by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. Section 2. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and- directed upon approval of the aforementioned amendment to the City's Step II Grant by the Environmental Protection Agency to accept said grant as amended. Section 3. That upon acceptance of the aforementioned Step II Grant as amended, the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to enter into a contract with Watermation, Incorporated, 2304 University Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota, as consulting engineers for the purpose of per. forming the work necessary to develop the aforementioned industrial wastewater pretreatment program. Section 4. That the total estimated cost of the aforementioned additional work is $58,767.93 of which the City's 25% share is $14,691.98 all of which is to be paid from the Sewer and Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvement Fund. Section 5. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this Ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all said deliberations of this Council and that of any of its committees 'that resulted in such formal action, were in meetings open to the public in accordance with all legal requirements including Section 121.22 of the Ohio Revised Code.