31-84 Apply to EPA to amend Step III Grant

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ORDINANCE NO: 31-84 BY: Chinnock, Graham, McBride, Salmon, Wendling AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to make appli- cation to the Environmental Protection Agency to amend the City's step III Grant so as to provide for increased construction costs,to extend the Grant budget period and to accept the Step III Grant as amended. WHEREAS, it has been determined the existing primary clarifier mechanisms and sluice gates are badly deteriorated and in need of re- placement; and WHEREAS, the replacement of mechanisms and'gates are necessary for a complete and operable wastewater treatment facility; and WHEREAS, it is necessary for the City to comply with Public Law 92-500, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act; and I'~EREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has advised the City that additional Step III 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 interest of the City to undertake this additional work; and WHEREAS, this Ordinance constitutes an emergency measure pro- viding for the usual daily operation of a municipal department and for the further reason that it is in the best: interest of the public health, safety and welfare of the City to proceed with the Step III work relating to the City's wastewater treatment facilities without delay; now there- fore, ' ' 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 III Grant by the amount of $300,000 to provide for the 75% federal share of the cost for the replacement of primary clarifier collector mechanisms and sluice gates for a complete and operable wastewater treatment facility. Section 2. That upon approval of the Enviornmental Protection Agency to amend the Step III Grant, the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed to increase the construction costs and extend the Grant budget period. Section 3. That the Mayor be and he is hereby authorized and directed upon approval of the aforementioned ~mendment to the City's Step III Grant by the Environmental Protection Agency to accept said Grant as amended. Section 4. That the total estimated cost of the aforementioned additional work is $400,000 of which the City's 25~ share is $100,000 all of which is to be paid from the Sewer and Wastewater Treatment Plant Improvement Fund.