HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 9046Resolution No. 9046
Resolution of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Authorizing
the City Manager to Execute the Cooperative Assistance
Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and the United States
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation for the
Disbursement of $5,000,000 in Title XVI Federal Grant Fund
for the Mountain View/Moffett Area Recycled Water Pipeline
Project (CIP WQ-04010)
WHEREAS, the Mountain View/Moffett Area recycled water pipeline project is
a joint project between the cities of Palo Alto and Mountain View to construct a
reclaimed water pipeline from the Palo Alto Regional Water Quality Control Plant
(RWQCP) to the Mountain View Shoreline community;
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto is the lead agency for the project and has
worked together with the city of Mountain View to seek grant funds for the project since
the Fall of2003;
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Act of Congress ofJune 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), and
acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, all commonly known as Reclamation
Law, $5,000,000 grant funds for the project are included in Public Law 110-229;
WHEREAS, Title XVI of the 1992 Central Valley Improvement Act (Public Law
102-575) directed the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) to form a partnership with the
Bay area water and wastewater agencies and administer Title XVI funds;
WHEREAS, the project sponsor must provide notice to USBR that the agency
receiving grant funds is aware of and intends to comply with the terms of the Title XVI
grant agreement, the Cooperative Assistance Agreement; and
WHEREAS, construction ofthe project was started in July 2007 and completed in
July 2009, and the Cooperative Agreement is retroactive.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does resolve as
follows:
SECTION 1. The City of Palo Alto has complied with and agrees to the terms of
the Cooperative Assistance Agreement.
SECTION 2. The Council hereby authorizes and directs the City Manager or his
designee to execute the Cooperative Assistance Agreement between City and USBR for
the Mountain View/Moffett Area Recycled Water pipeline project.
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SECTION 3. The Council fmds that the adoption of this resolution does not
require review under the California Environmental Quality Act because it does not meet
the definition of a "project" to California Public Code Section 21065. A mitigated
Negative Declaration and mitigation /monitoring and reporting plan was prepared and
adopted by Council for the Mountain View/Moffett Area Recycled Water pipeline project
on January 12, 2004.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: April 05, 2010
AYES: BURT, ESPINOSA, HOLMAN, KLEIN, PRICE, SCHARFF, SCHMID,
SHEPHERD,YEH
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTION:
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ?!l, (
~YIf~ Deputy ty Attorney
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