R2001-99 AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT

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� • . r� COUNCIL COMMUNICATION FORM Engineering & Infrastructure Memorandum NO. 2001-29 May 14, 2001 TO: Honorable Mayor Howley and City Council FROM: Steve Garman, City Manager Stephen P. Swanson,Director of Engineering & Infrastructurc�� Matthew C. Newell, City Engineer � SUBJECT: Agreement with Amoco Oil Company, 1725 South Franklin Street SUMMARY RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended by staff that the City Council approve the attached resolution authorizing a Tiered Approach to Corrective-Action Objectives Agreement between the City and Amoco Oil Company and authorizing the Mayor to execute the Agreement. BACKGROUND: The City's Department of Engineering & Infrastructure was contacted by representatives of Amoco Oil Company about obtaining a Highway Authority Agreement in conjunction with Amoco's site remediation at 1725 S. Franklin Street. Amoco is undertaking a remediation effort as the result of a leaking underground storage tank(s). The estimated impacted area is outlined on the drawings attached to the agreement. Amoco has been coordinating this work with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA). Amoco desires to obtain a "No Further Remediation Letter" for their property from the IEPA. The IEPA has advised Amoco that an acceptable and recommended means to comply with the Site Remediation Program is to obtain institutional control of those properties impacted by the subsurface contaminants that are not in Amoco's ownership. The institutional control sought by Amoco is in the form of a deed restriction that will prohibit the City from allowing the groundwater under the identified area to be used as a potable or other domestic supply of water and will limit access into the soil by means of excavations. The area that Amoco is asking the City to place such a restriction on is the South Franklin Street and 1 st Drive right of way adjacent to their site. This area is delineated on a map attached to the proposed agreement.