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iLII:OPOL:'.1N WASTE CONTROL COMPIISS�IONx 350 Met'', square Building, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101 222 -8423 AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE METROPOLITAN WASTE CONTROL COMMISSION AND CONTRACT N0. THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into by and between the City of , a municpal corporation of the State of Minnesota (hereinafter referred to as the "City "), and the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission, a metropolitan Commission established pursuant to Laws of 1975, Chapter 13 (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission "); , WITNESSETH THAT, in the joint and mutual exercise of their powers and in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties hereto recite and agree as follows: SECTION 1 - RECITALS 1.01. The City owns and operates a sanitary sewer system located inside its boundaries, comprising various lateral,, sub -trunk and trunk sewers; pumping stations, and other equipment and appurtenances. 1.02. The Commission owns and operates a sanitary sewer system located inside and outside the City, comprising interceptor sewers, pumping stations, treatment works, and other equipment and appurtenances. 1.03. Sanitary wastewater and some infiltration /Inflow (I /I) is received by the City sewer system and is discharged into the Commission's sewer system and treatment works. Various Commission facilities are proposed to be upgraded and /or expanded with federal and state grant assistance. 1.04. Section 35.927 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Rules and Regulations requires that all applicants for grant assistance for treatment works projects must demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Regional Administrator that each sewer system discharging into said treatment works is not or will not be subject to excessive I /I. The determination whether or not excessive I/I exists will "generally be accomplished through a sewer system evaluation consisting of: I) certification by the State Agency, as appropriate: and, when necessary, 2) an I/I analysis: and, if appropriate, 3) a sewer system evaluation followed by rehabilitation of the sewer system to eliminate I/I defined in the sewer system evaluation. 1.05. The Commission has completed an Infiltration /Inflow Assessment to identify collection systems subject to potentially excessive I/I and submitted recommendations for `urther I/I analysis to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). The preliminary evaluation determined that excessive I/I may exist in portions of the sanitary sewer system in the City of . It was further recommended that each municipality V -1 27