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Clerk 03/02/2006
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the operation of the West Point Treatment Plant, confirming satisfaction of the 1991 City of Seattle Council Conditional Use Approval (Project-Level) to Expand the West Point Treatment Plant, adopting findings, in satisfaction of condition 1c of said approval, regarding future use of digesters at the treatment plant, and authorizing a memorandum of agreement for payments to the city of Seattle in satisfaction of Section 1(d) of the settlement agreement regarding the continuing use of the digesters at West Point.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Definitions. The definitions in this section apply throughout this ordinance.
A. "West Point permit" means the project-level conditions established by the Seattle City Council for the Council Conditional Use Approval (Project-Level) to expand the West Point Treatment Plant, January 14, 1991.
B. "West Point Settlement Agreement" means the February 19, 1991, agreement which requires that if neither the Riedel/SMI process nor any alternative meeting the requirements for removing the digesters at West Point is implemented by December 31, 2005, King County shall pay to the city of Seattle, for deposit in the city's Shoreline park improvement fund one million dollars per acre for the land which, because of the presence of the digesters, is not available for public access.
C. "Memorandum of agreement" means a new document to be executed by King County and the city of Seattle regarding the digester funds and accrued interest from King County, which is to be deposited in the city's Shoreline park improvement fund, pursuant to the 1991 West Point Settlement Agreement.
SECTION 2. Findings of fact.
A. King County implemented a privatized solids drying facility at the West Point treatment plant that, if successful, could have resulted in the eventual removal of digesters in accordance with West Point Permit Condition 1c. Th...
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