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OVEIJ <br /> u ' p - <br /> with the amount of time, effort, and things that staff has to provide to the consultant for this project. <br /> As stated in the staff report,we will do everything in our power to provide as much information and <br /> as much as clerical time from staff as we can. Mr. Ulrich stated staff would recommend that the <br /> proposal be awarded to Wenck. <br /> Mr. Stigney questioned if these were mandated programs, or are these new programs, or is this <br /> something done periodically. <br /> Mr. Ulrich stated the process safety was actually brought in by OSHA in 1992 and it is something <br /> that the City was not aware of, at least the staff members at the time, and talked to many other cities <br /> and there a quite a few other cities also that are also doing the Process Safety Management. The <br /> Risk Management program was put forth by the EPA with the clean air act and that was just brought <br /> in as legislation late last fall. <br /> Mr. Stigney questioned the prices are $16,000 to $18,000,just what does this program consist of. <br /> What is the justification for that type of cost. <br /> Mr. Ulrich stated the Process Safety Management is actually a majority of the cost. If that would <br /> have been depleted back in 1992, about 80%of that Process Safety,which is the standard operating <br /> procedures, and training and cautions and building maintenance, and equipment maintenance, and <br /> all those procedures all wrapped up into a manual that the City follows on all confined space entry, <br /> water treatment facilities, and waste water collection facilities. That is a vast majority or bulk of the <br /> actual risk management program. We received the threshold point for chlorine storage and process <br /> at water treatment plant one. The threshold that pushes us into the Risk Management program is <br /> 2500 pounds of chlorine. We have a capacity of storing 4000 pounds. That pushes up to basically <br /> forces us to do the Risk Management Program. We have looked at the options of lessening our <br /> chlorine amount there,which would only increase staff time in changing chlorine tanks,would raise <br /> the price of our purchase for chlorine as chemicals, and also raises the incidence that we have to go <br /> down and actually change chemical tanks, which in some cases you could conceive as increasing <br /> the chance of an accident or a release. Mr. Ulrich stated by doing the Risk Management Program, <br /> we have to consult and use profiles that would determine the amount of people or air affected will <br /> by a sudden release of that chemical. A ten minute release, from 4000 pounds of chlorine. It is <br /> merely a precautionary step. It involves the community. There is some community education. <br /> Fliers will be sent out. It does not get real specific, because there is a certain amount of caution to <br /> anybody that may be interested in some of those facts. We are required to put our Risk Management <br /> Program on the INTERNET so it is all filed electronically, so anybody, in any city, state, or any <br /> place in the world could find out what our Risk Management Program is. Mr. Ulrich stated it is <br /> merely a safety program in which everything has to be documented. <br /> Motion/Second: Coughlin/Stigney. To authorize consideration of risk management and process <br /> safety management proposals. <br /> Ayes - 3. Nays-0. Motion carries. <br /> C:\ADMIN\MINUTES\CC\2-22-99.CC12 <br />